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scrabface 12-14-2011 06:13 AM

Bionic Contact Lenses
 
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(technology review):
Researchers at Washington University in Seattle are developing a contact lens that could project text and images before your very eyes.
hoooly shit I can't wait for this.

here's the article http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/helloworld/27382/


Jordan 12-14-2011 07:36 AM

It reminded me a little of this Futurama episode:

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_0jXlmZzctE...eyephone_1.jpg

Cool shit, anyway.

DarkHoodness 12-14-2011 07:57 AM

Probably will be something that only the very rich can afford though until the far future. But it is pretty cool, I didn't think things like this were possible.

STM 12-14-2011 08:09 AM

Hope people don't walk into things, it's an amazing step in a future we've only seen in the grim futuristic films thus far. Can't say I want one though, I love the world too much to switch off into an ipod touch let alone an eye piece.

JennyGenesis 12-14-2011 08:15 AM

How long till you can browse Facebook on those things?

Crashpunk 12-14-2011 09:14 AM

They remind me of the ones from Torchwood.

Ridg3 12-14-2011 09:27 AM

I just want to play Sudoku on it. When will this be possible?

JennyGenesis 12-14-2011 09:35 AM

Not still stuck in that phase are you?

Ridg3 12-14-2011 09:49 AM

I demand to know the reason what's wrong with Sudoku.

I demand it.

I held off making a quip about BvB.

JennyGenesis 12-14-2011 09:50 AM

The fact that I don't know how to play it and I don't understand why it became so popular at one time.

Scraby 12-14-2011 10:23 AM

well as we are rapidly advancing our technology suddenly nothing is impossible if you keep thinking,and inventing,just like tesla did.

StrangerEastwood 12-14-2011 03:23 PM

If they were like the ones from Torchwood...eep. We'd have people watching our lives, our own personal Big Brother devices. Creepy.

scrabface 12-14-2011 03:35 PM

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It reminded me a little of this Futurama episode:

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_0jXlmZzctE...eyephone_1.jpg

Cool shit, anyway.

I was more thinking of Ghost in the Shell and Deus Ex though.

StrangerEastwood 12-14-2011 04:46 PM

Being able to move through cyberspace in a semi physical form would be pretty badass, if that ever came about. However, it seems to just screw shit up in GitS, lol. But you have to wonder: how on earth would the contacts be practical? I mean, wouldn't that just be unnecessary imagery cluttering up your vision all the time? I'll stick to screens, thank you. >_<

skychase2rebirth 12-14-2011 06:36 PM

Annoying Pop-up while driving your car.... *ENLARGE YOUR PENISES* (yeah, 'cos in the future everyone has two c0cks) Oh and everything is written in Comic Sans..... ;P

StrangerEastwood 12-14-2011 06:39 PM

Then do all women have two vaginas, or is one penis superflous? Or, is it vertically placed? You see, these...these are the questions. Of the future.

skychase2rebirth 12-14-2011 07:13 PM

One word: Customisable
http://images.memegenerator.net/inst...0x/9493488.jpg

StrangerEastwood 12-14-2011 07:32 PM

Can mine have a skylight?

Daxter King 12-14-2011 10:51 PM

Im sure its fun whenever you get a virus that shows you visions of hell.

Jordan 12-14-2011 11:06 PM

That's an interesting idea. Could making the lens flip out and show stupid colours become a new type of drug? I could imagine the burn your eyes would get but some would go ape for that shit.

T-nex 12-15-2011 03:51 AM

This could give virtual reality a possibility. I'm liking it.

Imagine playing lasertag and seeing everyone as zombies :D

skychase2rebirth 12-15-2011 01:43 PM

http://www.ohmybloogness.com/media/01/02/2118496715.jpg
Seriously, I don't know. I never played laser tag...

Carnix 12-15-2011 02:25 PM

Y'know when I'm not playing laser tag, I just stop not playing laser tag, and be awesome instead. True story.

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Imagine playing lasertag and seeing everyone as zombies :D

Would imagining everyone as zombies while playing laser tag not be easier? Just saying..

Also, I tried contact lenses once and couldn't tame my blinking reflex so I only managed to get them in twice in the last month of trying. I'd actually find getting my entire eye replaced with a biotic one more convenient than this. Deus Ex HR puts me off of that idea, though.

MeechMunchie 12-15-2011 02:28 PM

I've played lasertag. It was pretty awesome, except I was 8 years old and cried when someone hit me.

MA 12-15-2011 05:04 PM

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Y'know when I'm not playing laser tag, I just stop not playing laser tag, and be awesome instead. True story.

EDIT:

Would imagining everyone as zombies while playing laser tag not be easier? Just saying..

Also, I tried contact lenses once and couldn't tame my blinking reflex so I only managed to get them in twice in the last month of trying. I'd actually find getting my entire eye replaced with a biotic one more convenient than this. Deus Ex HR puts me off of that idea, though.

what happened to your ~Blessed Be wank?

Carnix 12-16-2011 01:42 AM

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what happened to your ~Blessed Be wank?

Sorry to disappoint.


There, now it's in my signature, you can find my wank on every post that I have ever made here. It'll even appear twice on posts in which I typed it manually.

Your approval?

STM 12-16-2011 05:23 AM

Cheater.

AlexFili 12-16-2011 05:31 AM

Funny you should mention contact lenses. I'm reading a book called The Dark Tower Volume 2 and the when the main character possesses this prisoner, the eyes of the man change from Hazel to Blue. The air stewardess kept thinking he must wear coloured contact lenses, but then had an internal argument about the price of the lenses.

MA 12-16-2011 06:00 AM

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Sorry to disappoint.


There, now it's in my signature, you can find my wank on every post that I have ever made here. It'll even appear twice on posts in which I typed it manually.

baby, you never fail to disappoint.

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Your approval?

NO

Mr. Bungle 12-16-2011 09:32 AM

I'm still waiting for virtual reality video games. Virtual Skyrim, fuck yeah.