Digital Contacts Will Keep an Eye on Your Vital Signs

[The Straight Story]

Digital Contacts Will Keep an Eye on Your Vital Signs

Forget about 20/20. “Perfect” vision could be redefined by gadgets that give you the eyes of a cyborg.

The tech industry calls the digital enrichment of the physical world “augmented reality.” Such technology is already appearing in smartphones and toys, and enthusiasts dream of a pair of glasses we could don to enhance our everyday perception. But why stop there?

Scientists, eye surgeons, professors and students at the University of Washington have been developing a contact lens containing one built-in LED, powered wirelessly with radio frequency waves.

Eventually, more advanced versions of the lens could be used to provide a wealth of information, such as virtual captions scrolling beneath every person or object you see. Significantly, it could also be used to monitor your own vital signs, such as body temperature and blood glucose level.

Why a contact lens? The surface of the eye contains enough data about the body to perform personal health monitoring, according to Babak Parvis, a University of Washington professor of bionanotechnology, who is working on the project.

“The eye is our little door into the body,” Parvis told Wired.com.

http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2009/09/ar-contact-lens

[oligarhy]

1. I love science!

We do have lots of 'little doors into the body', all of which are very helpful.

Blood tests give doctors all kinds of info on what is going on inside of us.

Scientists have developed a device that take video images on a portable camera and 'displays' the images on the tongue. The idea is to develop a device to help hard of seeing and blind people a way to see.

and now these contacts.....Love It!

[zbdent]

2. Joo Janta 200s!

Get yer Joo Janta 200 Super-Chromatic Peril Sensitive Sunglasses here!

When the contacts go completely opaque, it's because you probably don't want to see what's about to kill you ...

[Historic NY]

3. But are they self-cleaning?