Researchers put circuits on contact lenses, freak out rabbits
Written by admin on January 17th, 2008 in Gadgets and Devices.
Posted Jan 17th 2008 3:49PM by Donald Melanson
Filed under: Wearables
We’ve seen plenty of newfangled contact lenses in the past, but it looks like a team of researchers at the University of Washington may have outdone them all, with their latest creation promising not only heads-up displays, but “superhuman vision.” That’s apparently possible thanks to a combination of lights and circuits,
which they’ve managed to cram onto lens no larger than your average contact — though it doesn’t even do so much as light up in its current state (that’s promises “soon”). Naturally, the researchers have tested the lenses on rabbits instead of themselves, which they say have shown “no adverse effects” after wearing the lenses for upwards of 20 minutes, although we’ll just have to wait and see if they feel the same way after the researchers flip the switch on ‘em. Head on over after the break for a closer look at the lens itself.
[Via Futurismic]
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