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- gwaggy12, on 09/03/2009, -0/+33I've wanted a Heads Up Display in my contacts for years. For no other reason than the ability to target and *maybe* zoom in on really nice cleavage.
- freezo1994, on 09/03/2009, -0/+30how about some HD glasses, "see the world in High definition"
http://www.ohgizmo.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/ ... - ricer333, on 09/03/2009, -0/+21is that 720p or 1080p? Cause that makes all the difference in the world!
/s - akrondude, on 09/03/2009, -1/+22I'm just waiting for them to find a way to ***** this up. I bet they make you watch commercials.
- Skurt, on 09/03/2009, -1/+21nah, they use special Sony batteries, they only explode once in a while...
BOOM! HEADSHOT! - mrSimon, on 09/03/2009, -1/+19Here's an approximation of how the service would appear to the wearer.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCE_XBSc6ck#t=1m18s - Legolover64, on 09/03/2009, -2/+16"In recent trials, rabbits wore lenses containing metal circuit structures for 20 minutes at a time with no adverse effects."
I would probably try with a little longer trial before saying it's safe and ready for people, but maybe that's just me... - missjames, on 09/02/2009, -3/+17cool idea. but i have enough trouble getting my regular contacts in, letalone one with circuits.
- ennuisquared, on 09/02/2009, -2/+15Take it a step further. What about a real bionic eye?
- tgc1, on 09/03/2009, -0/+13You know that wireless power technology that Tesla invented a long time ago?
- recruz, on 09/03/2009, -0/+12BUT WAIT, THERE'S MORE!
- jimboredford, on 09/03/2009, -2/+13Sign me up. As a matter of fact not only do I want augmented reality contact lenses I want them to record everything I see in full HD onto some super small high capacity (>20TB) SS disk that will be implanted somewhere in my body (ass cheek?). Ideally, I also have an implanted wireless connection which is used to periodically send backup images of my ass-disk to secure off site storage. I need to be able to view stored data on the fly through my contact lenses without having to use a computer to view previously recorded footage. If it is easier to achieve this with a bionic eye than a contact lens, so be it. Actually, the bionic eye would probably be better because it would allow for a sick optical zoom function and be less susceptible to errant bb gun shots.
- BooLag, on 09/03/2009, -1/+10Blindness is not only due to the eye malfunctioning...
- kafka47, on 09/03/2009, -0/+8Enhance 224 to 176. Enhance, stop. Move in, stop. Pull out, track right, stop.
- anthropodeus, on 09/03/2009, -1/+9too invasive. what's the point of removing an eye, replacing it with a bionic one, and reconnecting all the nerves if you can just put in a contact lens that converts infrared to the visible spectrum or magnifies what you're seeing?
- kafka47, on 09/03/2009, -0/+8Dugg for ass-disk.
- ubernoggin, on 09/02/2009, -2/+10The tough part is plugging it in.
- kafka47, on 09/03/2009, -0/+6I agree, especially after this sentence : "Most red LEDs are made of aluminum gallium arsenide, which is toxic. So before an LED can go into the eye, it must be enveloped in a biocompatible substance."
Oops, our biocompatible substance seems to have disintegrated...your eyes are now useless jelly. Yum. - chrisdlee, on 09/03/2009, -0/+6Does all this augmented reality remind anybody else of Molly from Neuromancer?
- Murfshay22, on 09/03/2009, -0/+5haha! I bought those for my wife last christmas as a gag gift. She thought it was hilarious.
It was sad how many people thought they were legit when I showed them the AWESOME GIFT I got her...
"OH! COOL! Let me try them!"
"........ its not real..." - DagonwebNL, on 09/03/2009, -0/+5Or better, sit in the office watching some porn in your FOV. Porn in HDR, HR, broadscreen, surround and in stereoscopic 3D?
Lets make that not in the office. Church maybe. - Katana, on 09/03/2009, -0/+5Outside is so cool, it's like DX5000 graphics.
- scoot2006, on 09/03/2009, -0/+5When they can somehow create high enough resolution images for us to see clearly from these it'll be amazing. Think about having a HUD like in District 9 when he was in the mech suit.
Or maybe being able to search google via your contacts. Someone calls and their pic and number appear on your contacts.
Haha, I have too many ideas for this stuff already, but it would be sweet if they could advance them to that point. - kgerm, on 09/03/2009, -0/+5Enhance!
- DeusNova, on 09/03/2009, -0/+4Reminds me of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennou_Coil
- Wizardo55, on 09/03/2009, -0/+4I'm really loving all the interesting science articles on Digg in the last day or so. Keep it up guys!
Also, is it just me or did anyone else think of Ghost in the Shell style communications as a possible use for this technology? - Anightowl, on 09/03/2009, -1/+5We have the technology.
We can rebuild him.
Better.
Stronger.
Faster. - Slackdragon, on 09/03/2009, -0/+4Now bosses will actually be able to say: "See that little blinking light in the corner of your eye? That's your Career Dissipation Light, and it just went into overdrive."
- danwallace, on 09/03/2009, -0/+4"and transmit information to the brain at a rate exceeding that of a high-speed Internet connection."
I certainly hope so. - battye, on 09/03/2009, -0/+3Incredible. What more can you say?
- NikoKun, on 09/03/2009, -0/+3As long as it can also make it appear as if digital objects are actually placed in the real world, as well as display a screen with information on it.. Count me in!
Oh... and it needs to be made to my prescription @_@ I gotz bad vision. Damn sitting at a computer screen all day. - DagonwebNL, on 09/03/2009, -0/+3I strongly suggest you read the novel "rainbows end" which goes far beyond this and is widely regarded as hard/realistic SF.
.....augmented reality gaming! - tgc1, on 09/03/2009, -0/+3I don't get why we would need to make contact lenses out of this technology. A pair of goggles or durable glasses would be more than sufficient.
- BooLag, on 09/03/2009, -0/+3ENHANCE!
- cJw314, on 09/03/2009, -1/+4Like we didn't know this was a matter of time?
Anyway, skip the contacts;
<oldNews>
"PlayStation maker Sony Corp. has been granted a patent for beaming sensory information directly into the brain."
http://berehulyak.com/blog/digital/PlayStation-bra ...
</oldNews> - JROXZ, on 09/03/2009, -0/+3Where do you plug in the HDMI cable?
- insertAliasHere, on 09/03/2009, -0/+3You could make that same point about plain contact lenses themselves. Why do we need contact lenses for vision correction, a pair of glasses are already sufficient.
Because we can. Because I don't feel like wearing glasses. - lead2thehead, on 09/03/2009, -3/+6Zoom in on that guy's face! Enhance!
- feignNU, on 09/03/2009, -0/+3Love that book.
- DagonwebNL, on 09/03/2009, -0/+3Interesting ... Lets assume that if they are researching like crazy now (and they are, I know one guy who runs the micro LED tests, lets say they already solved the energy supply problem...) the first lenses would be in 2015? Now lets assume they will follow close on the heels of a brief era of intense geekdom, with cybergoggles starting in earnest 2-4 years from now, at VGA resolutions. Markproduction and mass consumer use kicks these developments in to overdrive. So let moore's law rip loose on that;
Goggles Lenses
2012 VGA --
2014 Stereo VGA Stereo VGA
2016 Stereo SVGA Stereo VGA
2018 Stereo XGA Stereo SVGA
2020 Stereo SGXA Stereo XGA
2022 Stereo & HDR SGXA Stereo SGXA
2025 Stereo & HDR QXGA Stereo QGXA
This would be carried headset contact displays with minimal hardware (equivalent to linking with a cordless phone) fully capable of GPS, motiontracking, facial expression identification. I am personally sure that such a wearable will have significantly more computing power than your current desktop (and be cheaper) by 2014. Of course if you use these lenses in conjunction with static hardware they will be significantly more compelling - a surround monitor with a 200/s refresh rate, coupled with lenses will give you a surround immersive desktop in 3 years from now, if industries bothered. And bear in mind the industries want to escape the tar pit of content theft, by and large by bootstrapping a 3D entertainment multiverse, and a robust infrastructure of globally immersive augmented reality. If they got that in place, piracy becomes a lot more manageable and they can work from the get go to put out consumer insurrection brushfires.
IF ONLY for the last rationale I am sure these technologies will swamp our lives in very few years. It makes more commercial sense than baconclad prison cages. - squelched, on 09/03/2009, -1/+3as seen on tv??? that has to be legit
- milkmit, on 09/03/2009, -0/+2Yeah, I love how they conveniently omit how long it took to cause adverse effects. 21 minutes, maybe?
- usernr1337, on 09/03/2009, -0/+2wow with that you could make babes on the streets appear naked(overlay fitting naked photos to silhouettes) :D
- Farik, on 09/03/2009, -0/+2They aren't saying it's safe and ready for people.
- DiggerLater, on 09/03/2009, -0/+2Seems cool but not sure how the interface would work. If it displayed something in your peripheral vision, and you moved your eyed to look at it, the display would move with your eye and stay in your peripheral vision. Seems like it would have to scroll things right across your point of focus so you could make it out, thus blocking anything you might be trying to actually look at through the lenses...
- groo68, on 09/03/2009, -0/+2or you know, a camera that can tell where the contact lens is pointing so that the game image can be displayed on the contacts. that way anywhere you look you will see the game world as if you were in it. That plus the thing that lets you control games with your mind would be awesome.
- solecize, on 09/03/2009, -0/+2If someone hacks into your contacts- no big deal. Someone hacks into your eyes you're in trouble.
- someology, on 09/03/2009, -0/+2that would be an interesting spin on the holodeck idea... use contacts instead of projecting holograms into a room.
- Anightowl, on 09/03/2009, -1/+3...think blind people.
- Haz3rd, on 09/03/2009, -0/+1He mastered falling.
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