Augmented contact lens prototype
Engineers at the University of Washington have for the first time used manufacturing techniques at microscopic scales to combine a flexible, biologically safe contact lens with an imprinted electronic circuit and lights – the working prototype is due to be shown later this month at BioCAS 2009.
Babak Parviz, a UW assistant professor of electrical engineering:
"Looking through a completed lens, you would see what the display is generating superimposed on the world outside. This is a very small step toward that goal, but I think it's extremely promising. There is a large area outside of the transparent part of the eye that we can use for placing instrumentation (…) Future improvements will add wireless communication to and from the lens. The researchers hope to power the whole system using a combination of radio-frequency power and solar cells placed on the lens."
As well as serious applications such as language translation and news tickers there’s also a massive potential for augmented reality gaming (ARG).
Comments
2009/11/17 | 14:25
Tim Rombach
Augmented reality is very interesting and high-potential technology. In the next years, AR will be a part of our life.
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