{"id":22477,"date":"2022-05-21T06:00:20","date_gmt":"2022-05-21T10:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/?p=22477"},"modified":"2022-05-20T12:40:39","modified_gmt":"2022-05-20T16:40:39","slug":"the-future-is-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/?p=22477","title":{"rendered":"The Future is Now: Smart Contact Lenses"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve read so many SF stories in which people accessed the Internet (or whatever it was called in the future) via an implant or contact lens. Information floated in front of their eyes.\u00a0 It looks like this is no longer Science Fiction! –CPL<\/em><\/p>\n

From the BBC: https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/business-61318460<\/a><\/p>\n

Could contact lenses be the ultimate computer screen?<\/h1>\n

By Emma Woollacott<\/strong>
\nTechnology of Business reporter<\/p>\n

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Smart contact lenses promise to bring data directly into your field of view<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n
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Imagine you have to make a speech, but instead of looking down at your notes, the words scroll in front of your eyes, whichever direction you look in.<\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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That’s just one of many features the makers of smart contact lenses promise will be available in the future.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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“Imagine… you’re a musician with your lyrics, or your chords, in front of your eyes. Or you’re an athlete and you have your biometrics and your distance and other information that you need,” says Steve Sinclair, from Mojo, which is developing smart contact lenses.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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His company is about to embark on comprehensive testing of smart contact lens on humans, that will give the wearer a heads-up display that appears to float in front of their eyes.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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I’ve read so many SF stories in which people accessed the Internet (or whatever it was called in the future) via an implant or contact lens. Information floated in front of their eyes.\u00a0 It looks like this is no longer Science Fiction! –CPL From the BBC: https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/business-61318460 Could contact lenses be the ultimate computer screen? … Continue reading The Future is Now: Smart Contact Lenses<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":645,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[811],"tags":[1673],"class_list":["post-22477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-and-technology","tag-contact-lenses"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/645"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22477"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22477\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22480,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22477\/revisions\/22480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}