What’s on the web: Augmented Reality in a Contact Lens September 12, 2009
Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in Video, Virtuality, Web 3.0, What's on the web?, Wikipedia.trackback
- Social Media’s Promise for Public Health (e-Patients.net)
- Wikipedia to Color Code Untrustworthy Text (Wired Science)
Starting this fall, you’ll have a new reason to trust the information you find on Wikipedia: An optional feature called “WikiTrust” will color code every word of the encyclopedia based on the reliability of its author and the length of time it has persisted on the page.
- Doctors, Patients and Social Networks (Law.com) If you participate on a personal social network site, make it private. Keep professional relationships professional and personal relationships personal.
Conventional contact lenses are polymers formed in specific shapes to correct faulty vision. To turn such a lens into a functional system, we integrate control circuits, communication circuits, and miniature antennas into the lens using custom-built optoelectronic components. Those components will eventually include hundreds of LEDs, which will form images in front of the eye, such as words, charts, and photographs. Much of the hardware is semitransparent so that wearers can navigate their surroundings without crashing into them or becoming disoriented. In all likelihood, a separate, portable device will relay displayable information to the lens’s control circuit, which will operate the optoelectronics in the lens.
Wow, this is really cool. I wonder how the separate device will communicate information to the lens wirelessly. Wouldn’t that would require the lens to have some sort of antenna?
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