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Belgian team develops “LCD” contact-lens display
- nsxwolf 14y agoWhat a mean trick that headline is. Everyone reading that thinks its going to be an awesome augmented reality enabling HUD, and instead we find out its only a "display" for everyone BUT the wearer.
- politician 14y agoMaybe it's time to invest in one-way mirrored sunglasses?
- cdooh 14y agoIsn't there a rule about writing biat switching headlines?
- MalphasWats 14y agoIt's the headline of the actual article. I suggest you write a strongly worded letter to the editor explaining the HN submission guidelines. Probably best send it in triplicate, just to be sure.
- jack-r-abbit 14y agoIt also isn't really inaccurate. The team was Belgian. They developed a contact-lens. The contact-lens uses "LCD" technology and acts as a display. True... I thought it was going to be a HUD type thing but I blame that on me wanting a HUD and having no interest in using my contact-lens to display things to passers-by.
- stevep98 14y agoI never understood how contact-lens displays were supposed to deliver a focussable image on the retina. Is this doable? Maybe it will require some kind of magic metamaterials or something.
- Udo 14y agoI don't think it's doable with today's technology, that's why laser-based retina projection is what everybody's working on right now. Achieving the same effect with a thin and semitransparent lens would require a lot of engineering to achieve tightly controllable photon angles and I imagine power/data transmission to the lens would also be an issue. Also, personally I would rather put on a pair of glasses than stick a piece of plastic directly into my eye.