Jan 11 2011What Could Go Wrong?: New Contacts To "Project Images Directly Onto Your Eyeballs"
Because honest-to-goodness laser-vision is still another 40 years out (I've been to the future and seen it -- I just didn't understand the technology), scientists are constantly making incremental steps in that direction. The next little "breakthrough"? Contacts that project images directly on the back of your eyeball that will eventually be determined cause blindness. Thanks but no thanks, Hour Eyes!
Researchers at the University of Washington have been working on extremely tiny and semi-transparent LEDs designed to be integrated into contact lenses. So far, they've managed to create red pixels and blue pixels, and when they can figure out green ones, they'll be able to make full color displays.
Despite being millimeters from your retinas, the images created by the lenses will be in perfect focus, and when the display is turned off, everything will be transparent. Since the lenses are inside your eyelids, though, you can't un-see anything that they decide to project, which is something that you'll have to consider when you're watching something especially scary or gross on them. Power will come from a beltpack that transmits electricity wirelessly to a resonating antenna in the lens itself, and data will be transmitted the same way so that you don't have to plug HDMI cables into your eye sockets.
Right, key words being, "CAN'T UN-SEE ANYTHING THAT THEY DECIDE TO PROJECT". Because if you think for one second I won't hijack everybody's contacts and burn a bunch of penises directly into your retinas, you've got another thing coming. Namely, permanent peen-vision. LOOK OUT -- YOU'RE DRIVING STRAIGHT FOR A WIENER!
Contact lenses will project images directly onto your eyeballs [dvice]
Thanks to Richard and Molotov Crocodile, who can both see with their eyes closed because they cut little holes in their lids. LOLWUT?!
Reader Comments
1. Kamm - January 11, 2011 4:08 PM
Go to bed.
2. crackerLeroy - January 11, 2011 4:13 PM
Im not buying until they figure out a way to project Shakira onto my dork.
3. Greenman - January 11, 2011 4:25 PM
Interesting. I was just listening to Michio Kaku on the radio talking about how within ten years we will have the internet in contact lenses.
4. Ouch - January 11, 2011 4:28 PM
Awesome! Butt where do I plug in my Blu Ray player??
5. suomynonA - January 11, 2011 4:39 PM
ELECTRICITY WIRELESSLY !?!?!??!?!?!?!
6. Nichoperne - January 11, 2011 4:43 PM
Finally I can go take that SAT thing
7. Louis - January 11, 2011 4:48 PM
1 more step to my cyborg equivalent ruling the world... while looking uper fucking cool
Louis of http://aprettyage.blogspot.com/
8. Wolfpack - January 11, 2011 4:56 PM
Suck it!
I want a sharingan cus its way better than that!!!!
9. suomynonA - January 11, 2011 5:03 PM
Lol nichoperne, i completely forgot about that.
But, im sure when places of education find out that something like this exists, they would checks the eyes of everyone, especially since its gold and obvious
10. Sub Zero - January 11, 2011 5:18 PM
Think of the porn!
11. omgeyes - January 11, 2011 5:20 PM
suomynonA, i think that they could just disable the wireless signals in school or something. remember, these things are IN ur eyes
12. ObamaPacman.com - January 11, 2011 5:22 PM
OMG the new Apple EyePhone!
13. Ford - January 11, 2011 5:54 PM
Contacts? Oh HELL no! I can't even use eyedrops! My flinch reaction when it comes to my eyes is so strong that sometimes I can't even remove an eyelash from them, and it's no easier for someone else.
Everyone else: CONGRATULATIONS! Let me know how awesome this is!
14. hack - January 11, 2011 6:15 PM
how would things look like, that close???
would it be like in 3D? can you imagine watching something like Avatar or how to train your dragon with HD and 3D with these!!!!!
I am liking this future,
15. friendlystoner - January 11, 2011 6:17 PM
bad news if they malfunction while driving, tho it could help if you get drunk and while sobering up you realise your shagging a fugly
16. Liu Kang - January 11, 2011 6:41 PM
@3 Michio Kaku is from the future, no doubt.
17. Storm - January 12, 2011 1:09 AM
Vegeta, what does the scouter say about his power level?
This should be good
18. hfhfgh - January 12, 2011 10:18 AM
Life is so lonely. Why not change it rignt now?
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19. jay - January 12, 2011 12:40 PM
http://v-oid.com/project/clens/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGFG3PNw2WE&feature=player_embedded
20. Tay - January 12, 2011 6:13 PM
easy way to stop seeing the image, turn off the power source. most people forget that taking out the keys will stop the engine of your car.
21. asdf - January 12, 2011 7:15 PM
DO WANT
22. Fuck Yeah - January 12, 2011 8:14 PM
I've been waiting for this technology for the very few years I've been alive.
It's just... phenomenal if they actually pull it off.
23. Danton - January 12, 2011 9:14 PM
damn they stole my idea
24. whitney - January 12, 2011 10:05 PM
Lol therewith be so much porn watched lol peen vision! But that would be really cool hope no one hacks and streams scary/nasty crapp
25. Anthony C. - January 12, 2011 10:21 PM
Michio Kaku talked about somethin like this on Opie and Anthony lol
26. Jason - January 12, 2011 11:31 PM
make these, combine them with the kinect and voice recognition, abolish modern schools.
27. Genmar - January 13, 2011 1:15 AM
@ 5 look up powermat chargers and similar products for wirelessly recharging phones etc. the technology is allready there.
28. Lrrr of the planet Omicron Persei 8 - January 13, 2011 2:40 PM
This lens + Camera + Internet Connection = Facebook 2.0
Goodbye privacy.
29. B G - January 14, 2011 12:09 PM
Encrypt BluTooth signal from source to eye-screen to prevent hacking.
Eye-screen + handheld = real time tracking display - useful for pilots and hunters and military personel
Ultimate use : Eye-screen + handheld = real time overlay of computer data onto whatever your looking at ( forgot what tech is called)
Next step eye-screen + inbeded camera = bionic eye for blind
30. BBKing - January 14, 2011 4:26 PM
What station is Dr, Michio Kaku on? is it XM or what?
31. Chris - January 15, 2011 4:52 AM
I don't understand why you can't "unsee" it's just a projection, just as you can't "unsee" a movie you watched or a scene in real life you saw??
32. Luis - January 15, 2011 2:59 PM
if they can wirelessly power the lenses, they can turn it off when shutting your eyes
33. contact lenses - February 4, 2011 8:00 PM
This is a good example of what's in store in the future for contact lenses according to http://www.coloredcontacts.com