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Contact Lenses Will Augment Future Reality

It will all just be a part of you.

In the future you’ll never have to be apart from the world’s data stream. Never again will you have to consult some unwieldy box, however smooth and stylish and pocket-sized, for communication and/or information and/or entertainment and/or stimulation. It will all just be a part of you.

Information displayed on a contact lens may not be quite that — as anyone that wears contacts will gladly explain — but it is nonetheless dizzyingly close to that dream. And contact lens-based “info vision” is now within the realm of possibility, according to a new paper in the Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering, courtesy of a research team based at the University of Washington.

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