Who needs Project Glass when you could have Project Contacts?
Augmented Reality Contact Lenses
Seriously.
Just this year at Google IO conference we were thinking that the coolest thing since sliced bread soon to come would be Google’s Project Glass.
Giving us the ability to have a screen projected into our retina for augmented reality. And then, not too long ago I stumbled upon this movie:
And I sat there thinking to myself..
Damn, that would be cool – but it’s probably still going to be ‘a while’ before tech can create this type of stuff. I mean, after-all having Contact Lenses that augment your reality is really bridging the gap and creating singularity.
So as I was doing some research today, I saw something that absolutely blew my mind
(which is probably why you’re here).
Imec, (the creators of the LCD display technology) allows the use of almost all of the contact lens surface, unlike LED-based applications that only enable a few pixels. Imec also says, the technology will work for a range of pixel sizes and numbers.
The main challenge, of course, beside the thinness, has been the shape:
“Normally, flexible displays using liquid crystal cells are not designed to be formed into a new shape, especially not a spherical one,” Jelle De Smet, the project’s primary researcher, said in a statement. ”Thus, the main challenge was to create a very thin, spherically curved substrate with active layers that could withstand the extreme molding processes.”
Imec, (who claim to be 3-10 ahead of the industry) created the new contact lens at the Center for Microsystems Technology.
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