I think I may have just ejaculated all over my face and hands...

[ReyFufuRulesAll]

http://www.inhabitat.com/2010/03/17/...-100s-of-leds/

Solar Powered Augmented Contact Lenses Cover Your Eye with 100s of LEDs
by Yuka Yoneda, 03/17/10



Want eyesight that would make the Terminator jealous? Well, in a few years, you might be able to say hasta la vista to your normal old contact lenses and hello to the solar powered augmented lenses that University of Washington professor Babak Amir Parviz and his students are working on. The technology would embed hundreds of semitransparent LEDs onto a thin lens, letting wearers experience augmented reality right through their eyes. And the applications – from health monitoring to just plain bionic sight – could be endless.



The lens that Parviz has been working on utilizes sensors and wireless technology and is still in its nascent stages but is definitely promising. Of his research, Parviz says, “These lenses don’t need to be very complex to be useful. Even a lens with a single pixel could aid people with impaired hearing or be incorporated as an indicator into computer games. With more colors and resolution, the repertoire could be expanded to include displaying text, translating speech into captions in real time, or offering visual cues from a navigation system. With basic image processing and Internet access, a contact-lens display could unlock whole new worlds of visual information, unfettered by the constraints of a physical display.”



All of this begs the question, as we move towards using less and less material to make our products, will we also move towards using more of our own body parts?

I'm not sure if you know this or not, but I rarely get excited about tech news. However, the possibilities of this are baffling. Honestly, the only tech article that got me more excited than this was the one a while ago on anti-cancer nanobots.

[NonConformist]

oh wow...

[Nightfighter89]

That. Is so. Cool.

That is all.

[FKLBRLS]

If they can make a contact-lens that doubles as a video camera, the possibilities for winning arguments are endless:

"Bullshit, you didn't just HAPPEN to run into Miley Cyrus at the airport and bitch-slap her for making that 'Party in the USA' song."

"Oh yeah? Check this out BITCH, I got it all on my eye-camera!"

*shows video from eye-camera

[Dr. Madd]

But what happens if they EMP you? You go blind.

[ReyFufuRulesAll]

I told my girlfriend about this and then we sat there and made snorty noises, punctuated by geeky words such as "potential" and "technological" for a good half hour until we settled down enough to have sex.

[ReyFufuRulesAll]

Originally Posted by Dr. Madd

But what happens if they EMP you? You go blind.

no, your eye-readout just stops working. Remember, the LEDs are, for all intents and porpoises, translucent; and you can take the lens out if you want.

[Nightfighter89]

Originally Posted by ReyFufuRulesAll

I told my girlfriend about this and then we sat there and made snorty noises, punctuated by geeky words such as "potential" and "technological" for a good half hour until we settled down enough to have sex.

Bastard. I want sex

[Blacksheep]

Originally Posted by Nightfighter89

Bastard. I want sex

Well try asking Rey nicely instead of calling him a bastard and maybe he'd put out once in a while.

[Dag]

Originally Posted by Blacksheep

Well try asking Rey nicely instead of calling him a bastard and maybe he'd put out once in a while.

POTD

[Nightfighter89]

Originally Posted by Blacksheep

Well try asking Rey nicely instead of calling him a bastard and maybe he'd put out once in a while.

He is a bastard.