Researches are developing a new generation of contact lenses built with very small circuits and LEDs. They promises bionic eyesight in the future. Bionanotechnology researcher Babak A Parviz writes about his research toward producing a computer interface in a contact lens at IEEE Spectrum article Augmented Reality in a Contact Lens. The author states that, ‘All the basic technologies needed to build functional contact lenses are in place,’ and details what refinements and advances will be necessary to bring this technology to reality. The picture below is from the article.
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Tomi says:
Here is some update article on the augmented reality contact lenses:
Solar Powered Augmented Contact Lenses Cover Your Eye with 100s of LEDs by Yuka Yoneda, 03/17/10
http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/1NPMqx/www.inhabitat.com/2010/03/17/solar-powered-augmented-contact-lenses-cover-your-eye-with-100s-of-leds/
http://www.inhabitat.com/2010/03/17/solar-powered-augmented-contact-lenses-cover-your-eye-with-100s-of-leds/
Want eyesight that would make the Terminator jealous? Well, in a few years, you might be able to say hasta la vista to your normal old contact lenses and hello to the solar powered augmented lenses that University of Washington professor Babak Amir Parviz and his students are working on. The technology would embed hundreds of semitransparent LEDs onto a thin lens, letting wearers experience augmented reality right through their eyes. The lens that Parviz has been working on utilizes sensors and wireless technology.
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Pete says:
Wow I am excited for this contact lenses development. Actually I am already happy with the available contact lenses now which can be used for corrective and therapeutic purposes, and cosmetic uses, as people can use cosmetic contact lenses to change their eye color. How much more if this is introduced?
Tomi Engdahl says:
News again on this topic:
Electronic Contact Lens Displays Pixels On the Eye
http://science.slashdot.org/story/11/11/24/0354208/electronic-contact-lens-displays-pixels-on-the-eye
Electronic contact lens displays pixels on the eyes
http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/onepercent/2011/11/electronic-contact-lens-displa.html
The future of augmented-reality technology is here – as long as you’re a rabbit. Bioengineers have placed the first contact lenses containing electronic displays into the eyes of rabbits as a first step on the way to proving they are safe for humans. The bunnies suffered no ill effects, the researchers say.
“We have demonstrated the operation of a contact lens display powered by a remote radiofrequency transmitter in free space and on a live rabbit,” says a US and Finnish team led by Babak Praviz of the University of Washington in Seattle.
“This verifies that antennas, radio chips, control circuitry, and micrometre-scale light sources can be integrated into a contact lens and operated on live eyes.”
Display in contact lens « Tomi Engdahl’s ePanorama blog says:
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Tomi Engdahl says:
DARPA Works On Virtual Reality Contact Lenses
Digital images could be directly projected onto lenses to improve soldiers’ situational awareness.
http://www.informationweek.com/news/government/mobile/232600054
Tomi Engdahl says:
DARPA Works On Virtual Reality Contact Lenses
http://tech.slashdot.org/story/12/02/02/028249/darpa-works-on-virtual-reality-contact-lenses
“Binoculars and night-vision goggles have their limits. So DARPA is doing work at Washington-based Innovega iOptiks to create wearable eye lenses with tiny, full-color displays onto which digital images can be projected, to give soldiers better situational awareness. The lenses would allow users to focus simultaneously on images that are both close up (perhaps a display) and far away (perhaps a battlefield.) Using virtual reality technologies to improve how soldiers perform on the battlefield has been a particular interest of the U.S. military for some
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It looks like it may be similar to Innovega’s display at CES. Details (heavy in the marketing gloss) are available here. [innovega-inc.com]
To summarize, the human eye is pretty bad at focusing on things nearby. Close one eye and hold your hand a couple inches in front of the other, and you’ll see what I mean. In order to get around this so far, all the augmented reality glasses you refer to need to use some tricks to make it seem like the image is farther away than it really is. This makes the screens bulkier, more expensive, etc. The idea here is to create a contact lens onto which you can project an image so that it gets superimposed on one’s vision, in focus, without any trickery, thus simplifying the design and allowing the AR devices to be lighter, cheaper, maybe use less power, and so on.
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Feel Safe, Mars Travelers, Virtual Reality-Assisted Space Surgery Is Here
http://motherboard.vice.com/2012/2/7/feel-safe-mars-travelers-virtual-reality-assisted-space-surgery-is-here–2
Humans are pretty fragile. A bad break in your hip can mean surgery and months of rehab. That’s pretty bad, but what if you fall and break your hip on the Moon, or even Mars?
Luckily for our Mars-bound descendants, the European Space Agency has a solution: an information-loaded assisted reality helmet that will let anyone identify and perform minor surgery to repair injuries.
The Computer Assisted Medical Diagnosis and Surgery System, CAMDASS, is a wearable augmented reality helmet that injects computer generated models and information directly into the wearer’s field of view.
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Group to test direct-to-brain bionic eye on human patients
Novel approach from team out of Australia has led to unprecedented success in developing field
http://www2.electronicproducts.com/Group_to_test_direct_to_brain_bionic_eye_on_human_patients-article-fajb_bionic_eye_may2012-html.aspx
Group to test direct-to-brain bionic eye on human patients
Novel approach from team out of Australia has led to unprecedented success in developing field
The team believes that their solution will effectively provide vision to nearly 85% of those declared clinically blind. This is important because there’s already close to 300 million visually impaired people in the world, so research into how to restore vision for this growing group has long since passed the critical point.
Bionic eyes are nothing new — they’ve actually been around for quite some time.
The direct-to-brain bionic eye
This is what makes the MVG’s approach so unique: The doctors are completely bypassing the complexities that come with trying to reconstruct the complexities of the human eye. Instead, what they’ve developed is a pair of glasses that have tiny, high-resolution cameras in them to serve as the eye’s retina. Video recorded by these cameras is sent to a pocket-worn digital processing unit that converts the camera’s recorded video into electrical signals which, in turn, get sent to a microchip implanted directly on the surface of the patient’s visual cortex (located in the back the brain).
More specifically, specially written algorithms transform the camera’s image data to a pattern that gets wirelessly transmitted to the micro-sized electrodes on the brain implant chip. Upon receiving these signals, the chip responds with the appropriate voltage, current, and timing to stimulate an image within the visual cortex of the brain.
The results right now are rudimentary, black-and-white images, but many believe that this is the start of a very promising, alternative approach to providing sight to the visually impaired.
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