but would not feel comfortable wearing them,
so Google has been busy working on another idea, inserting a smartcamera into contact lenses, the lenses were developed in the Google X lab and
were featured in a patent filing dating from 2012, which was recently published
by the US Patent and Trademark Office, the patent filing features a contact
lens that includes an embedded circuit, camera and sensor, the control circuit
could be linked wirelessly or via a wire to the camera and sensor, the sensor
could be a light sensor, pressure sensor, temperature sensor or electrical
field sensor, which may allow for people to gain a ‘sixth sense’ of sorts.”
one of the key benefits of having a camera
embedded in a contact lens rather than attached to the side of the head like
Google Glass is that the camera frame would follow a person's precise gaze
without obstructing their view (by being placed along the edge of the lens,
away from the pupil), Google
points out that the lens could take raw image from a contact lens, process it
and relay what it sees to a blind wearer via a different sense -- perhaps an
audio warning that there is a car approaching a junction, for example, there
may also be the option of go-go-gadget eyes that have a zoom capability, whatever
will Google think of next?
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