For those of us who wear glasses, contact lens or just vaguely squint at the world, the next few years could be a real eye-opener for technological innovations.
With radio frequency powered electronics, boosted by miniature solar cells, control and power circuits, your eyeball will be fooled into believing it can see perfectly with a computer controlled lens, or plugged into a multi-media world by being wirelessly linked to a computer and using LEDs to project information in front of you.
With research work being done by Dr. Babak Amir Parviz, Associate Professor Bionanotechnology, at the University of Washington and his students, using miniature optoelectronics, a whole new world of clear vision or multi-media eyeballs might one day make its way out of the lab and into your eyes. There are a host of medical monitoring tasks that are also considered possible with a lens, such as monitoring blood sugar, cholesterol, sodium and potassium levels.
Utilizing techniques of miniaturization and embedding it all in a polymer lens is one research area they are investigating, and it might lead to a long duration wear high-tech lens that will eliminate disposable lens as well. Avoiding contamination is also under study, such as ensuring toxic aluminum gallium arsenide from LEDs are not released into the eye.
However, we certainly don’t agree with the testing on rabbits in their research — surely a human can better give information on the fit, feel and other design features than a rabbit.
Via JustGetThere
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