Friday, January 18, 2008

beholder

pretty excited for these I guess - via several prime internet sources - the pic is of a rabbit eye, kind of freaky, no? I still want to get lasik, these come in vision correcting and non-vision correcting versions -

Movie characters from the Terminator to the Bionic Woman use bionic eyes to zoom in on far-off scenes, have useful facts pop into their field of view, or create virtual crosshairs. 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.

The device to make this happen may be familiar. 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...

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