Telescopic Contact Lenses Unveiled 21
sarahnaomi writes Unveiled at this week's AAAS meeting/conference in San Jose, the telescopic contact lenses are the creation of optics engineers at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, with a bit of help from designs developed at DARPA. The technology involves a bit more than just the contacts. The system is based on the interaction between a pair of normal-looking eyeglasses and the lenses, which are embedded with what are really just a pair of supertiny aluminum telescopes. The contacts are still only about 1.5 millimeters thick, and feature 1 mm-wide channels or pores that allow the required breathability-maintaining airflow. This last part proved to be one of the biggest challenges, requiring years of experimentation.
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Zoom in on this: 8====D~
Because without these, your dick is invisible?
Six million dollar man's eyes are finally real? (Score:1)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UV17B8oq_cE
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title (Score:2)
I am disappointed that these are not contact lenses for my telescope.
Though I suppose putting a barlow lens on would qualify as this.
You lost me at "supertiny" (Score:3)
What kind of writer would ever create and then use a word like 'supertiny'?
Re:You lost me at "supertiny" (Score:5, Funny)
Note from the editor:
It was better than his first choice, ultraweensey.
infrared telescopic contact lenses, now, please (Score:2)
Annoying websites (Score:2)
Totally off-topic except for the linked website being one of those, but...
I hate those websites that have this "let's scroll the background at half the speed of the real scrolling" Web 2.0-whatever feature. It's annoying for people who use their mouse scrollwheel because it looks like the scrolling it broken and we're not sure if we're dealing with stupid iFrames or broken javascript or some other godamn problem.
Whoever invented that shit should be ashamed of himself/herself.
Excuse me while I touch my eye. (Score:2)
The contacts are still only about 1.5 millimeters thick...
Still only? Beer coasters are thinner than that.
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But beer coasters are no telescopes.
Picture of prototype (Score:2)
I believe this was the prototype :-)
http://www.tvfanatic.com/galle... [tvfanatic.com]
Wheeee! (Score:2)
Woo-hoo Cybernetic limbs be damned, I Officially live in a god-damn Shadowrun game now!
Finally one of Kryten's problems solved (Score:2)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?... [youtube.com]