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Awesome! One step closer towards transhumanism.

Resistance is futile.

I look forward to utilizing this new technology in the most perverted way possible...

I want night vision first.

This is cool as hell. If they can find a way to simulate tactual sensation in the brain, video games and porn about to get very interesting.

On a Debbie Downer note, driving is about to get much worse.

I for one welcome our evil cyborg bunnie overlords...

Can we use this to put everyone in DK mode like on James Bond?

Put one of these in each eye in a room to with receivers they can triangulate from, and you don't need any kind of bulky projectors to have 3d images created in real space.

Bring on the future Mister Vernor Vinge. The next 20 years are going to be a wild ride. :)

Where do I sign?

LaForge didn't even have these until like the last couple of movies. And that was the Future!

Give me some heat, x-ray, whatever connected to this device and let me see wavelenghts normally not experienced please!

Wait until they somehow add the ability to record video and sound...

Now I can play the game: "Real Life."

"Electronic contact lenses offer scary-looking strobing irises, and maybe some kind of potential benefit in the distant future"

Someday being a human maybe come a liability.
Cyborgs!!!
Ghost In The Shell.

Does anyone read the article? This thing is absolutely tiny--it has under 50 pixels. It is not giving us superhuman eyesight, and we still can't see wavelengths.

HOLY COW!

I am legally blind I can see with my glasses 20/200 in my left eye 20 / 80 I have no per phial vision I have to look at pc monitors, books etc close. I even have a hard time playing sports games on a big screen (Small text) something like this could make it so I could drive and live my life more normally.

I would LOVE beta test the lenses I've dreamed of being able to see like everyone else my life would be so impacted by something like those lenses!

Plus having a computer built in even betters it I work in IT lol I could see it now. fixing a server from the toilet :P

Seriously though if anyone can find anything more about these and if they are doing any testing I really think something like this could vastly improve my day to day life.

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Ah, the future.

I hope they figure out how not only to display, but also *record* video with contacts. That for me, and for the film industry, combined with the lenses' display ability, would be mind-bendingly revolutionary.

Personal HUDs. About time.

They better put some damn good ad-blocker in them. You just know the moment an internet browser is accessible through these, we're gonna be having v1agr.a pop-ups obstructing our vision as we drive and Meet Hot Girls in *your area* Tonight! while you talk to your wife.

man, there is just too much cool stuff to have to wait 50 years for...

Deus Ex

Do they stop bullets?

doo doo doo doo doo doo doo ... doo doo doo doo doo doo doo ... that sounds better in my head than written down - bloody 70's sound effects!

If I'm going to augment myself electronically, I only want wifi connection to the Web that goes straight to my brain, hehe! Google, Wikipedia and Digg!

"I need you boots, your clothes and your motorcycle"

This is so neat that it sounds like fiction.

"A Dell Kontax XPS contact lens gaming system's batteries have been deemed defective after several explosions and subsequent deaths of almost a dozen customers. Dell has since recalled the defective units and issued a new marketing campaign, 'Kontax XPS, they'll blow your mind'"

This is amazing. All I would need after this is a harddrive and wifi installed into my head somewhere. It would also be cool if they could augment my skin with plant cells so I could get energy from the sun. Hopefully one day that will be possible.

now that's a HUD

All your base, are belong to us!

I love science.

While I think this is awesome, I would personally prefer something more like the BrainPal, or whatever the hell powers Schroeder's Inscape.

No more need for 150" tv's in the future.

What a wonderful step towards addressing the plague that is rabbit nearsightedness...

I'll wear them as long as the volatile chemicals involved (mercury, I'm looking at you...) don't seep through the contacts and into my eyeballs.

Wouldn't you have to track the eye's motion as well - at least with a full-field display? I think you'd need to, because the lense moves with the eye, so moving your eyes to look around wouldn't allow you to focus the center of your field of vision* on off-center/peripheral parts of the display as moving your eyes allows you to in the real world.

So you'd not only have to track the eyes' motion but also use this info to sufficiently shift the images accordingly to actually allow you to "look around" at off center parts of the display.

(* it's the center of our field of vision that has the acuity to resolve things such as words sufficiently to make them readable - try reading something in your peripheral vision without actually looking at for an example)

"The prototype device contains an electric circuit as well as red light-emitting diodes for a display, though it does not yet light up."

The biggest challenge is getting wearers to feel comfortable with the heavy 9 volt battery dangling from their eyeballs, researchers said. ;-)

This is a great idea until you get permanent ones put in, then someone finds a way to put spam ads in there.

Private Porn on the go?!?! I'm In!

I've always thought about this as a way to cheat on tests...or look at porn during meetings...whatever the best use would be

As awesome as it sounds can anyone say eye cancer? Naw, they are probably safe, like cell phones.

Kewl,now you can play Doom 3 while talking on your cell phone while driving down the interstate!

ok, but will there be an SDK?

More details needed! Clearly this is very preliminary, proof-of-concept type stuff... but I wonder how the lens is powered (bio-electric?). And what happens if the lens is twisted to anything but a perfect orientation (is the display upside down or at an angle)? And can the displays be mapped onto certain shape or surfaces... or is display in the same location wherever I look?