A pioneering class of computerised contact lenses could soon grant their wearers a social media overlay over their day to day world after they were successfully trialled on rabbits.
Ditching cumbersome smartphones and tablets wearers can simply read text messages and catch up on Facebook updates by opening their eyes.
Dubbbed ‘info-vision’ the system incorporates Wi-Fi enabled lenses via a circular antenna wrapped around the circumference of the lens whilst tiny LED lights embedded in the lens relay information.
Its developer, professor Babak Parviz of the University of Washington, said: “We have got a rudimentary display with one dot. If you had several dots, you could maybe create arrows, to give people directions.”
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It will be interesting to see how this progresses. It does sound very terminator inspired. If i look at someone will it bring up their facebook page and latest tweets for me based on facial recognition.
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@Nick Rhind what you're talking about is both frightening and exciting but it's not what we're dealing with here... facial recognition means microcamera or any sensory device. not the case here, they're (luckily?) not that far away in the future!
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Yeah, but it would be amazing if facial recognition was combined into this system - just thing you would never forget a name again.
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