Given the technology in its entirety we can say that it isn’t going to make it to the common man’s eyeballs anytime soon, but with all the wonders of a contact lens that provides you with analytical information, you can well hope for one soon. Hoping isn’t a sin after all. After watching Doomsday I was pretty bowled over by the concept of an eye that could see things and figure out additional details about it. For instance, your eye functions like one of those all knowing monitors in the FBI offices. ‘Augmented lenses’ is the new term haunting the dreams of our future and for good measure. To sum up all the tiny things that will be accommodated in these lenses we have a prototype that shows single-crystal silicon components, compound-semiconductor components, radio chips, miniscule antennae and an LED or two. Neat setup.

It is quite a bit of a task to put your first lenses into your eyes. But with all these tiny little objects embedded in it, one would need real balls fitting them in place. However, such lenses have been tried on rabbits and they pulled through for 20 minutes at a stretch. Wonder how well analyzed that hole looked to them, from it.

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