Tuesday, June 5, 2012

iOptik Wins Popular Science Invention Award

How iOptik works according to Popular Science.
"After two decades as an electrical engineer, Randy Sprague quit his job in 2008 to start a solar power company," starts the Popular Science post. "He had been planning the venture for years, saving up, getting his wife’s blessing. But then one morning while taking a shower, he had a brainstorm for an entirely different idea: contact lenses that could act as part of a wearable display. Users could instantly augment their view with information—say, the price of an antique in a store or the species of a tree in the forest—or transform their field of vision into a virtual videogame screen. Suddenly the solar company no longer seemed as appealing." That was the birth of iOptik. Read more.

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