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Re:Electronic contact lens displays pixels on the eyes by exDM69 on Tuesday November 22, 2011 @05:54AM (#3264985)
Did anyone else think about the Eyephone episode of Futurama when they saw this?
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Re:Electronic contact lens displays pixels on the eyes by arethuza on Tuesday November 22, 2011 @06:45AM (#3265118)
No - I thought about the augmented realities in Vernor Vinge's Rainbows End:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbows_End

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Re:Electronic contact lens displays pixels on the eyes by rasur on Tuesday November 22, 2011 @06:59AM (#3265154)
I thought of Steve Mann's "eye tap"
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Re:Electronic contact lens displays pixels on the eyes by polyfractal on Tuesday November 22, 2011 @12:56PM (#3266520)
Was just about to post the same thing. Pretty nifty device, I've considered building my own for a while now. It's pretty simple.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EyeTap

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Re:Electronic contact lens displays pixels on the eyes by rasur on Tuesday November 22, 2011 @01:55PM (#3266819)
Yeah, I like the wearable computing idea much more than I like walking about with a "smart" phone.
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Re:Electronic contact lens displays pixels on the eyes by viraptor on Tuesday November 22, 2011 @07:38AM (#3265252)
Ghost in the shell and vision interception devices. Hopefully the devices these guys create don't come with an integrated killswitch.
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Re:Electronic contact lens displays pixels on the eyes by starwed on Tuesday November 22, 2011 @09:54AM (#3265686)
I actually thought about the contact lenses in Torchwood that could overlay text on your vision.
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