Computerised contact lens will keep you up to date with news and texts
- Prototype could create hands-free information
- Was placed into a rabbit’s eye without causing any health problems
- Inventor also looking to incorporate sensors to pick up important medical data
- Meanwhile, Britons to try out bionic eye which could end blindness
Messages and images would simply appear in front of your eyes, generated by a computerised contact lens. Of course, you may not always want to be bothered by such messages if you are doing anything so quaint as – for instance – reading a book or going out walking and enjoying the scenery. But until now the concept of info-vision – the ability to stream information across a person’s field of vision – had belonged to the realms of science fiction, featuring in films such as the Terminator series or TV shows such as Torchwood.
However, scientists have developed a prototype lens that could one day provide the wearer with all kinds of hands-free information. It could also be used to display directions and TV programmes.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2064543/Computerised-contact-lens-date-news-texts.html#ixzz1ePQrxd7q
