"'If you look at the structure of a contact lens,' says
Babak Parviz, University of Washington assistant professor of
eleectrical engineering, 'more or less it’s just a
polymer that … does vision correction.' Since the group was already working on incorporating micron-scale
devices onto unconventional substrates including plastics, he says, 'we
saw the opportunity to integrate these on a contact lens.' Parviz adds that much of the micro technology that would have to fit
on a contact lens is already available and says, 'To look at the
semi-conductor industry and what we have in opto-electronics and micro
machines, we already have a lot… (but) one thing we have not done is to
put those things on a contact.'" That's the start of an excellent
ScienCentral post. "Parviz imagines a whole list of things a supercharged contact
lens might do, explaining, 'I can see this exponentially growing and
having many, many applications; from lenses that are quote-unquote
intelligent and can help the user who’s had a cataract surgery to see
better, to amplified vision, to all sorts of gaming applications and
interfacing with your iPod and lots of things.'”
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