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Electronic contact lens displays pixels on the eyes

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Re: Electronic contact lens displays pixels on the eyes

#15

I want one with facial recognition software. Never have that nervous moment again when you have to do introductions and you are just not quite so sure about your old acquaintances name.

In time, you could go beyond facial recognition and perhaps include gait recognition too.

Re: Electronic contact lens displays pixels on the eyes

#17

That sound you hear is the sound thousands of advertisers creaming their pants. Now you will have to look at that ad, even if you close your eyes.

Not if the software is open source. On the contrary, you could run Adblock and never see another billboard.

Re: Electronic contact lens displays pixels on the eyes

#19

It will be interesting to see if they are able to progressively scale up the resolution while still ensuring that you can actually see out of the lens. As cool as this is, though, I'm more interested in having them figure out more ways of restoring vision rather than augmenting it. For purely selfish reasons, I'm especially interested in retina replacement, which is being worked on (they've been able to create new re…

How were your retinas damaged, if I may ask?
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