Forget iPhone Augmented Reality: How About Contact Lens AR?

Years ago when I was a DoD contractor, I joked with a number of engineers that I wanted heads-up display technology embedded in my eyeglasses (well half-joked because I really wanted this). My idea was, apparently, aiming way to low tech because University of Washington’s Babak A. Parviz took it to the next level with…

Augmented Reality in a Contact Lens (IEEE Spectrum)

The technology is still in its early stages (In recent trials, rabbits wore lenses containing metal circuit structures for 20 minutes at a time with no adverse effects) and is working with an 8-by-8 matrix of LEDs.