Re:Graphene Gives You Infrared Vision in a Contact Lens (2014)
by ohazi on Saturday November 05, 2016 @06:06PM
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Terrible, horrible click-bait title.
Lenses. do. not. work. this. way.
You can't coat a contact lens with a magical coating that expands your ability to see.
This particular technology allows you to build infrared light detectors, as in photo cells or pixel arrays. You can make them as thin as you want -- they're going to do fuck all on a contact lens.
They demonstrated a technology the size of a contact lense, but did not make a functioning prototype that resides on an eye.
Still a neat approach.
Lenses. do. not. work. this. way.
You can't coat a contact lens with a magical coating that expands your ability to see.
This particular technology allows you to build infrared light detectors, as in photo cells or pixel arrays. You can make them as thin as you want -- they're going to do fuck all on a contact lens.
This whole article should die in a fire.