View Full Version : An Eye on the Future...?


Chris Hurd
December 7th, 2012, 04:22 PM
Interesting tech news here; could eventually have some "application" in our field someday... you think?

The dream of a bionic eye is closer than ever: Researchers at Ghent University have created an LCD display the same shape and thickness of a contact lens.

Full story at LCD contact lens puts an image right over your eye - FutureTech on NBCNews.com (http://www.nbcnews.com/technology/futureoftech/lcd-contact-lens-puts-image-right-over-your-eye-1C7474882)

Dylan Couper
December 7th, 2012, 05:54 PM
Coming 2018, the SmallHD DPeye?

Peer Landa
December 8th, 2012, 01:22 AM
Wouldn't it be difficult, if not impossible, to focus on an area that close -- no?

-- peer

Craig Yanagi
December 14th, 2012, 07:11 PM
I hear Apple's coming out with a similar device called the "iPatch."

...Sorry, I couldn't resist...

Allan Black
December 14th, 2012, 08:26 PM
Craig, that's because iPads been taken :)

Imagine getting DVinfo as a heads up on your glasses, the mind boggles now but it is coming.

Cheers.

John McCully
December 14th, 2012, 11:56 PM
iC is short and sweet!

Dave Blackhurst
December 15th, 2012, 08:18 PM
iSpy...oh my.

Ken Hull
December 15th, 2012, 11:18 PM
So, this is sort of a .... Private Eye?
Then can we expect specific model names like Philip Marlowe, Sam Spade, Sherlock Holmes?

(Sorry. I couldn't resist either.)

John McCully
December 15th, 2012, 11:29 PM
And let's not forget the apple of my i.

(Personally, I'm a PC kind of a person!)

Mark Kenfield
December 16th, 2012, 03:13 PM
And let's not forget the apple of my i.

(Personally, I'm a PC kind of a person!)

Now now John, never let political correctness get in the way of a good pun.