Terminator-Style Contact lens will soon project images before eyes

After being tested on animals, the researchers and scientist of Washington are very much confident about the new automatic contact lens to project emails before eyes. This new development in the generation of lens is considered to be a vast advancement,
which consists of a unique feature of projecting images and emails.

The researchers of Washington have said that after a successful test on animals human will be able to experience the distinctive use of this unique technology by reading floating texts, emails and the computer generated images.

Parviz along with a team of international engineers has made a contact lens, which is embedded with tiny light emitting diodes. The LED’s will light up when they will receive wireless signals.

The ophthalmologist of the University of Washington Tueng Shen and Markku Sopanen form Alto University Finland, has collaborated with Praviz to work on the device.

The team has been working on this miniaturized device for a while, he says that "If we can make very small devices of various sorts, if we have the ability to put them into different materials, what can I do with this contact lens that I stare at every morning?"

The lens has been tested over live rabbits and no side effects are found. The technology offers to display a single pixel on the eye.

The scientists are still working on the improvements and the capabilities of the device which will be integrated to make the focus of the image excellent.

The LED used in the device is made up of Sapphire, which is inserted into the center of the contact lens. With the help of radio frequent the LED is capable of controlling a single pixel.

Parviz said. The computerized lens is made from polyethylene terephthalate (PET), a hard plastic that doesn’t allow airflow to the eye, limiting usage to only a few minutes. Although the device could be powered from three feet away when it is outside the
eye that distance narrowed to about an inch when the contact was in an actual eye. While a single pixel lighting up could potentially be useful as a warning, without the focusing micro-lenses, the rabbits only saw a blurry shadow.

Scientists are planning to increase the pixel count, refine the antenna design, widen the wireless range, and get the components into a softer, more flexible material.

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