Tag: CONTACTLENSES

The idea of injecting electronics into contact lenses is nothing new. We've already heard plenty of speculation about TV piped straight to your lenses, and scientists have already put the first displays in prototype models and tested them on rabbits. Now researchers also believe that circuits embedded in your eye-wear could monitor your health. Professor of bionanotechnology Babak Parvis, at the ...

We never figured Iggy Pop for a psychic, but new technology gives the song "TV Eye" a whole new meaning. According to the Daily Mail, a recent report published by the Future Laboratory consultant group claims that, within the decade, TV will be able to transmit video via contact lenses and emotional impulses via tattoos. Theoretically, the monitor lenses and digital tattoos would be activated, ...

There comes a time in every disposable contact lens' life when it must move along to the big eyeball in the sky; when it's so slime-encrusted and foggy that the only thing it should be seeing is the inside of a trash-bin. If you have a hard time remembering just when it's time to break open a fresh pair, Countact is for you. It's a simple enough product, a contact dish that has a digital timer ...

Far from the first circuit-laden contact lens we've laid eyes on (ahem), researchers at UC Davis have more than bragging rights in mind with their "smart" contacts. The devices are infused with a "pattern of conductive silver wires, which could be used to measure pressure inside the eye." The material, dubbed polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS), would boast antimicrobial properties and could enable ...