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On: Jan 18, 08
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Bionic eyes! For the first time, researchers have developed a safe contact lens that can give humans vision like Superman. The lens has an imprinted circuit and lights which would display graphics similar to the Terminator and or the eyes of Bionic Woman.

These characters have “bionic eyes to zoom in on far-off scenes, have useful facts pop into their field of view, or create virtual crosshairs,” UWNews explained. “Off the screen, virtual displays have been proposed for more practical purposes—visual aids to help vision-impaired people, holographic driving control panels and even as a way to surf the Web on the go.”

Imagine the uses for heads up displays for every thing from flying to playing a game.

"Looking through a completed lens, you would see what the display is generating superimposed on the world outside," said Babak Parviz, a UW assistant professor of electrical engineering. "This is a very small step toward that goal, but I think it's extremely promising." The results were presented today at the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers' international conference on Micro Electro Mechanical Systems by Harvey Ho, a former graduate student of Parviz's now working at Sandia National Laboratories in Livermore, Calif. Other co-authors are Ehsan Saeedi and Samuel Kim in the UW's electrical engineering department and Tueng Shen in the UW Medical Center's ophthalmology department. (uwnews.washington.edu)

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Just has LASIK in 2000, how much to "install" these in both eyes?? Unique. Nice to have ZOOM & Xray & IR & Magnification in these IE LT Col Steve Austin the 6MDM from 1970s TV show.

By: rocketranger on Jan 19, 08   0 Trends   2,582 Comments
@rocketranger: the cool thing is that these are contact lenses!

By: Going Like Sixty on Jan 19, 08   2,884 Trends   1,499 Comments
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