{"id":4172,"date":"2012-12-09T12:13:10","date_gmt":"2012-12-09T11:13:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/?p=4172"},"modified":"2012-12-12T12:39:55","modified_gmt":"2012-12-12T11:39:55","slug":"the-future-is-near-lcd-contact-lens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/?p=4172","title":{"rendered":"The future is near: LCD contact lens!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-Post Icon wp-image-4173\" title=\"eye-big-digital\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/eye-big-digital-64x64.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"64\" height=\"64\" \/>Have irisses with pictures long been a dream vision in movies, it now<br \/>\nseems that this is no longer Science-Fiction. The Centre of Microsystems has<br \/>\ndeveloped a contact lens with a flexible LC display that is capable of display-<br \/>\ning images. However the image is only viewable forothers, not the wearer.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->So why is the lens still not fully practicable?<\/p>\n<p>The reason is that the wearer is still seeing a blurry image as the focus is not adjustable yet. But practical appliances might be a brightnes controlling LCD that is adjusting brightness by darkening or brightening the whole lens. This might help people with eye problems (such as a defective iris) to still be able to see normally without trouble to the retina and the like.<\/p>\n<p>At Washington university, plans like these have also been followed, however based on LED which at that time were not small enough to lead into usable results.<\/p>\n<p>The LCD allows much finer structures and thus more capabilities.<\/p>\n<p>However it&#8217;ll be still a long way until contact lenses, say with integrated Augmented reality, will become true. But who knows who will do the first step to create such lenses that you&#8217;ll get a view like the &#8220;Terminator&#8221;&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have irisses with pictures long been a dream vision in movies, it now seems that this is no longer Science-Fiction. The Centre of Microsystems has developed a contact lens with a flexible LC display that is capable of display- ing images. However the image is only viewable forothers, not the wearer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[434,3,19],"tags":[258,1931,2226,2225,182],"class_list":["post-4172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nature-2","category-news","category-thoughts-2","tag-eye","tag-image","tag-iris","tag-lens","tag-science"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4172\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}