Virtual Vision Terminator Style

virtual-vision-1According to a recent article in IEEE Spectrum magazine, an emerging generation of high-tech contact lenses will add images and meaning to ordinary vision. Tiny LEDs built into lenses will project images in front of users wearing the lenses, allowing them to see labels and text, as Arnold Schwarzenegger did in the Terminator movies, or navigational cues with arrows projected in front of them. Tiny biomedical sensors may sample the tear film on the eye to keep tabs on wearers’ health. Small solar cells will harvest power to run the electronics built into each lense. Sounds too far-fetched to be true? Babak Parviz, a professor at the University of Washington, explains how he’s building electronically enhanced contact lenses to bring this vision into reality in the following video.

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This entry was posted on Tuesday, August 25th, 2009 at 8:26 pm and is filed under Frontiers of Scientific Exploration, Videos & Multimedia and tagged with , . You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed.

One Response to “Virtual Vision Terminator Style”

  1. Personlig says:
    August 28, 2009 at 1:45 am

    that is so awesome.

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