This looks like a nice way to provide covert information to a user, a display built into a contact lens. Read here. The LEDs in the contact lens will project information into the lens itself and the image displayed will appear to float up to a metre away from the user.
Think how handy this would be during exam time, err…, I mean when you are working on a train or in a car. Like all the other displays that in reality provide head up displays it could be used for Sat Nav, instruction aids while working on units, PDAs reminding the forgetful among us information on whom we are speaking to. In reality although using a different, and very interesting, technology it is not all that different in function from the other displays we have looked at.
What I do wonder about is other uses it could be put to. Could it be programmed to change the wearer’s eye colour? How about iris recognition could it spoof that? I’m betting it could be programmed to do so. Coupled with real time information displays this seems more like a tool for spooks. I wonder if this will disappear into Q’s little lab on the Thames and we never see it again.
If not it will make visiting the KGB style airports a lot more interesting.
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Contact lens displays
This looks like a nice way to provide covert information to a user, a display built into a contact lens. Read here. The LEDs in the contact lens will project information into the lens itself and the image displayed will appear to float up to a metre away from the user.
Think how handy this would be during exam time, err…, I mean when you are working on a train or in a car. Like all the other displays that in reality provide head up displays it could be used for Sat Nav, instruction aids while working on units, PDAs reminding the forgetful among us information on whom we are speaking to. In reality although using a different, and very interesting, technology it is not all that different in function from the other displays we have looked at.
What I do wonder about is other uses it could be put to. Could it be programmed to change the wearer’s eye colour? How about iris recognition could it spoof that? I’m betting it could be programmed to do so. Coupled with real time information displays this seems more like a tool for spooks. I wonder if this will disappear into Q’s little lab on the Thames and we never see it again.
If not it will make visiting the KGB style airports a lot more interesting.