Night-Vision Contacts Are Seen in the Distance

"If you love the freedom that contacts provide but wish the lenses could do more to enhance your night-hunting, a breakthrough at the University of Michigan may make thermal-seeking contacts a reality. I’ll never miss prey in my peripheral again," notes GeekoSystem. "In news that is sure to rock the vampiric community, Phys.org is reporting today that in a recent Nature Nanotechnology paper, professors Zhaohui Zhong and Gerard A. Mourou announced the first room-temperature light detector that can be 'stacked on a contact lens or integrated with a cell phone.' Prior to the duo’s discovery, heat-seeking vision required a combination of cumbersome technologies in order to detect near, mid and far infrared radiation all at once. Graphene--a single layer of carbon atoms--catches the entire spectrum, but is too small to capture more than 2.3% of all light." Read more.