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So here's us, on the raggedy edge.
Saxophones started blowing me down / I was buried in sound / Taxicabs were driving me around — Wilco, Handshake Drugs |
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If only you could see what I’ve seen with your eyes!
I will be first in line for these, although I always thought that the implants imagined on William Gibson’s Molly were interesting.
Jan. 17, 2008
Bionic eyes: Contact lenses with circuits, lights a possible platform for superhuman vision
By Hannah Hickey
Contact lenses with metal connectors for electronic circuits were safely worn by rabbits in lab tests. The lenses were manufactured at the microscopic level by researchers at the UW.Movie characters from the Terminator to the Bionic Woman use bionic eyes to zoom in on far-off scenes, have useful facts pop into their field of view, or create virtual crosshairs. Off the screen, virtual displays have been proposed for more practical purposes — visual aids to help vision-impaired people, holographic driving control panels and even as a way to surf the Web on the go.
The device to make this happen may be familiar. Engineers at the UW have for the first time used manufacturing techniques at microscopic scales to combine a flexible, biologically safe contact lens with an imprinted electronic circuit and lights.
Posted by skooter at 8:21 PM
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This entry is tagged: Articles, Bionics. Cybernetics, Contact Lenses, Eyes, Science Fiction