High-tech Terminator vision may be possible with the bionic lens
Contact lenses with Terminator vision
By Richard Gray, Science Correspondent
An electronic contact lens has been developed that will enable maps and videos to be beamed before the wearer’s eyes.
The bionic lens has microscopic circuits fixed to a flexible plastic. The scientists who created the device say the lenses could eventually provide computer-aided vision similar to that of Arnold Schwarzenegger’s robotic character in the Terminator films.
Drivers and pilots would have essential information – their speed and direction, for example – superimposed in front of their eyes, in a massive advance on the kind of “wearable displays” now available, which are spectacles that have images displayed on the lenses.
A prototype of the lens has been built, with light-emitting diodes – LEDs – embedded in it to flash up information. Its built-in antenna will use wireless technology, similar to that used in the home, to beam information to the lens, allowing wearers to surf the internet without taking their eyes off the world around them.
Babak Parviz, the electrical engineer behind the project at the University of Washington, said: “We have demonstrated some of the key technologies required to make a sophisticated functional contact lens. We hope to hook up a wireless link… for updating images and reporting the state of the lens.”
Microscopic electrical circuits link up the LEDs and the antenna harvests energy from radio waves to power the lens. Holes which are each 1,000 times thinner than a human hair are etched on to the lens.
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Electronic components are attached by floating them across the lens surface, where capillary forces suck each one into the right-sized hole. The eye relies on only a small amount of light entering the pupil at a time, so wearers will still be able to see through the lens, while the circuitry is built around the edge.
Mr Parviz plans more sophisticated components to show detailed pictures, and it is possible to include a zoom function. The lenses have been tried on animals but there will be tough safety tests before the technology is developed for people.
Dr Chris Baber, a reader in interactive technology at Birmingham University, said: “The key is how they fit on to a person and ensuring they provide the right information at the right time.”
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39 responses so far ↓
joachim // January 27, 2008 at 1:43 pm
Nice future… we shall be able to make love any time with our female or male cyber-lovebots while always keeping the stock exchange quotes in sight huh?
wil // January 27, 2008 at 5:34 pm
Ew. This can’t be good for vision. Or not good in so many other ways. And again–if radio waves from cell phones are causing a host of problems…
pjwalker911 // January 27, 2008 at 6:26 pm
But you see the progression? From outside your body, to ON your body to IN your body which will gradually replace humanity with machines and cyborgs. This is the ultimate elite agenda.
pjwalker911 // January 27, 2008 at 6:33 pm
That’s right joachim. You will be able to watch porn and play Halo 3 while you are driving down a busy freeway. There is no need for this, but it is being pushed from the top as part of the transhumanist agenda to bring us all into the Hive-Mind Borg system so that we will all be One and individuality will be a thing of the past. Oh, it is so good, I think I wanna cry tears of joy and wet my pants.
wil // January 27, 2008 at 11:50 pm
Good if you’re the Borg Queen…
Andre // January 28, 2008 at 12:55 pm
Personally, I would not want to wear them… but they might be good thing for partially blind people… to help them see better.
Individuality will never be a thing of the past…. check out “The Nature of Personal Reality” by Jane Roberts.
jeremy // January 28, 2008 at 4:54 pm
I’d be a little scared of the dreams I’d have when I fell asleep with them in.
pjwalker911 // January 28, 2008 at 5:00 pm
Are you a human dreaming you’re a robot, or are you a robot dreaming you’re a human? In future, you will not be able to tell the difference. That is, if we allow this to continue without any discussion, debate or legal restraint.
Captain George Clark // February 9, 2008 at 4:19 am
In todays world anything that man can think of he will do .Good or bad he will do it . Who cleans up the mess. No one .Don’t ask why silly.
anonymous // February 23, 2008 at 8:53 pm
pjwalker, you are retarded. the people producing this technology aren’t forcing anything upon you. you are free to not use them, saving your individuality. stop preaching.
pjwalker911 // February 24, 2008 at 3:43 am
The only retard I see is you “anonymous”, too stupid and ignorant to know anything about the elitist plan for a New World Order, much less care about it, and too lacking in moral backbone to question any of it.
Anyway, it isn’t so much a matter of force. Very little of the NWO agenda is actually forced or mandatory, in the beginning. It is a matter of conditioning, training you through predictive programming to accept the cyborgization of humanity, training you to accept your loss of privacy, your loss of rights, your loss of individuality, your loss of economic power and property, your loss of sovereignty, your loss of humanity and your loss of common sense. And there you are embracing it all like a bleating sheep. So the programming lenses are just the greatest thing in the world are they? No doubt you think DARPA’s LifeLog is a wonderful idea and you enjoy being monitored and tracked everywhere you go too. Oohh, it’s so cool and cutting edge…you can’t wait to get yourself chipped can you?
Sad and disgusting.
I’ll say whatever the hell I want, so tough luck for you. If you don’t like it, get your own blog.
Taco // February 26, 2008 at 4:37 am
Ha! Stop thinking so hard, these could be very useful.
Kait // March 17, 2008 at 10:08 pm
I, for one, am looking forward to this. Gaming could be amazing once these become more sophisticated. :D
Virtual Reality…
omar // March 30, 2008 at 7:46 am
pj…lmao your such a douche bag…lay off the david icke,pat robertson dimebag televengelist garbage…there is no illuminati no masonic conspiracy no alien human treaties …..your just an idiot with a active imagination and in psychology we call it life scripts….believing that garbage has given you a purpose and to spread information about that garbage and the fact no one believes you motivates you even more because your so RIGHT why wont people listen to you ???? if you believe all that nwo bullshit, i have a bridge i want to sell you
pjwalker911 // March 31, 2008 at 4:16 am
I have never ever said anything about alien treaties, nor do I promote Icke or Pat Robertson, so it’s just bullshit garbage that you are slinging without any idea of what the hell you are talking about while you spout your pop psycho-babble in the process in a lameass high-school-level attempt to pretend you know something. Besides being an illiterate goofball, I suspect your mental age is somewhere around 14, though your actual age is probably around 20. I calls ‘em likes I sees ‘em.
Omar you are an arrogant, ignorant lowlife numbskull with zero knowledge of history or of the elite aristocracy and their activities throughout history and how they have historically deceived, enslaved and otherwise abused the masses of downtrodden humanity and more recently turned their sights towards taking total control over the planet. But you think you are a superior being with a more comprehensive understanding of reality. Laughable. Get yourself a life.
By the way, did you get chipped yet bonehead?
Michael (colour your eyes) Marchand // April 27, 2008 at 11:16 am
Don’t know about this. I love tech stuff but you have to draw a line somewhere.
pjwalker911 // April 27, 2008 at 4:45 pm
That’s right. The thing is, according to the elites, there is no line whatsoever such that people will have these things surgically implanted or even grown into their eyes if they get their way and some cases it will be mandatory just like the GPS tracking chips and the brainchips. And there really is no end to it in the “post-human” future.
Belalang // May 14, 2008 at 7:02 am
Dont know what to say…
mm // May 23, 2008 at 1:13 am
haha you’re a pretty good troll
Computer Repair Guy // July 1, 2008 at 9:53 pm
Electronic eyes with Zoom control – Great News, I’ll be able to see all those tiny screws even if I have left my glasses at home LOL!!
jerry // September 2, 2008 at 10:07 pm
i just want to know how much it,ll cost
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RYAN LEE (neoseeker.com member) // December 13, 2008 at 8:37 pm
Hmmm… this reminds me of the Solid Eye in mgs4 only… smaller… I think this could go one of two ways. Either it could be extremely useful or just be a step in the direction of controlling mankind much like the Patriots do in mgs4
pjwalker911 // December 13, 2008 at 9:56 pm
It’s part of a the transhumanist agenda (google “transhumanism, post-human and eugenics” together). First they give you technology outside and away from the body. Then place the technology on the body itself. Then, put the technology inside the body. Then start replacing every part of the body until it mutates into a total cyborg. They plan to execute this agenda over the next 30 years maximum. See Kurzweil on the subject. The point is to make you into a perfect servant of the New World Order hooked up to the Hive Mind with no thoughts of your own, completely programmed so that you lose your individuality along with any rights at all. But the key is to sell it to you and your children now as something cool, futuristic, pioneering, fun, for convenience and “safety”. People with no knowledge of history, no knowledge about anything of importance, and no common sense, will simply go along with this agenda like sheep herded into holding pens.
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Annonymous // February 2, 2009 at 11:14 pm
Ok I get the total idea of people not wanting an implant and everything etc but your forgetting its a contact lens it can still be taken out and honestly I would hate having it in at night so I would simply take it out and once again it is totally optional. Mobile phones have already surpassed privacy anyhows so why such the big fuss.
pjwalker911 // February 3, 2009 at 4:37 am
I’ve already gone over it, so if you don’t get it, then what is the use?
Annonymous-1 // February 5, 2009 at 10:29 pm
well to pjwalker911, couldnt this tecnology be used to fight the new world order? remember, fight fire with fire. the cops aren’t the only ones with guns you know, sometime the bad guys have them to, so why couldn’t this be used to help those who oppose the new world order?
pjwalker911 // February 6, 2009 at 12:13 am
There is a line that this is fast approaching. That line is implantation of neural chips. Once that starts (already has), then we are on the way to Kurzweil’s “singularity” to become cyborgs. Relying on these types of lenses just opens us up to going further. You might then say in 20 years, “but the thugs have brain chips, so why shouldn’t we? We have to keep up with them.” etc. The point is you are on a slippery slope with wearable technology to the point that is is very quickly moving toward becoming a cyborg yourself. All of this is of course gradual conditioning and immersion into the technology until we become not only totally dependent on it, we actually become machines ourselves. The more machine-like we become, the less human and the less humane we will become. But another part of this is there will be very unequal distribution of this technology. There may be some equivalent of the cheap cell-phone for the masses implanted in their brains, but this will only be used to control them, just as the boob-tube does now. The more elite soldiers, bureaucrats, robo-cops, etc will get more sophisticated devices implanted to ensure superior capabilities. And so what happens is there will be this widening gap between the enhanced and the natural humans, most of whom are either poor or the rare few who refuse the technology on moral or other grounds.
But the real bottom line to all this is that it is not inevitable. It is being heavily funded into existence along an agenda to re-engineer the human species into a servant class (greatly reduced through depopulation) and a few higher classes of elites and elite minions who will lord it over the others with their superior capabilities. If you buy into this system, if you gradually submit to more and more of it, you are just helping the NWO along. You can’t destroy the NWO with guns or technology. You can only destroy the NWO with the truth. That is the only truly effective weapon that we have. Once sufficient numbers wake up and realize there is a war declared upon them by the elite, and once we start living in a culture of truth (we are very far from it now), then and only then does the NWO start to fall apart and lose its power.
lack of amusement // February 14, 2009 at 12:06 am
lol wow this pj guy is a real tool he types in some bullshit on google (caues we know everything on google is true) and all of a sudden he himself is a priest trying to spread the world to save humanity when all hes doing is trying to force you to not wear it… so your kinda contradicting your self if you want people to be individuals then why not let them chose for themselves. i mean is it that hard to let people make there own choice… here you all ranting about dont get these implants blah blah blah… and yet its merely a contact that projects pretty lights that simulate a transparent monitor… also the government is going to give the military and police forces this stuff as a prototype are you telling me the friends and family members wont see a diffrencts in them if they are being controled… also the best wepons are not owned by the military (except maybe nukes and the moab) they tend to get the cheapest of the cheap when it come to supplying our military so most likely just pay that extra cash to get better than they have… and all this bullshit NWO stuff is a joke… lol are you kidding hulk hogan was part of the nwo on wcw … so sounds to me your afraid that hogan wants you to be his slave brother lmao… give me a break. its a contact and hey if you don’t want the implants or whatever don’t get it… also if you really wanted to push a theory of mind control and end of humanity then you should have gone with a more believable story such as its the mark of the beast every chip has 666 on don’t get them.. i mean you did write everything in English and revelation seems to be popular with the usa with the whole bible belt thing… yet your talking bout turning in to a cyborg… Oo now that’s the only amusing thing you have said this entire blog… one day we will be able to have nanomachines in our blood stream to cure cancer to fight against aids to fix failing organs… this is the technology your telling people to fight against. no doubt we should take steps to protect our privacy and i know for one i’ll be calling my hacker buddys up to give what ever i do get implanted a look over and deactivate any type of gps or others anomaly… and yes if man can create it then man can destroy it. so wtf are you worried about. the lies you are spreading about the nwo is in fact the most illogical and rather appalling idea i have ever heard. to think that we are all going to be controlled by chips and our freewill along with our souls will go away are you that lacking in your own logic to question you theory. as a matter of fact history is full of people telling people some tech is bad just to get what ever agenda they wanted you to fight agianst to use it to control people. have you forgotten hitler this guy spread the word to elect him and he would provide food and jobs which he did and with words and mind games brain washed an entire country. the simplest way to control humans is to make them lies about the truth to have what you want in the end… speaking of which even if your theory was realistic and is going to happen. i doubt highly a little google search would turn up the answers you are looking for for the simple fact if these elites/nwo people are going to in the next 30years impement all this why would it bee on google the govment is self deletes info off google all the time to prevent people from knowing things and the fact the site is still up puts a strong stance on the unlikely anything there is true even if there is a group with the the agenda you are talking about i doubt they would be so careless to let this info leak for the worries some ignorant fool to start ranting about it in the blogs with a name of pj… dude your name is pajamas and you want us to take us seriously lol… that or pj is your intials and then you show everyone how careless you are… if you are confused about what that means think about this for a sec your posting info agianst the nwo to stop them yet any pc literate person can hack the site serch for w0hat ip goes with the blog look up ip -> address to where you live… now if i was in charge of the nwo and i seen this blog shuting you up would be fairly easy to do… but no worries for you i have no interest in this debate on way or the other but if your going to talk about all the negative things that could happen then why are you not talking about the positive things as well (must assume this is a sign you belive anything you read). with that in mind you have all this info to share with us so wheres your proof? people dont care about a child writeing about loss of humanity when clearly i doubt you even think for your self most likely many types of psych problems with you. anyone else notice how pissed he got when someone said something psychological? if anything he would welcome the intellctal debate yet all you did was resort to insults and tried to discredit him right away. along with anyone else that said what you said is bullshit. you would rather insult and repeat the same thing then engage in a actual discussion or debate but isn’t that what your telling us to do? id be glad to debate or disscuse this with you anytime but i request you post it here so everyone can see how immature you are. and i dare you to not respond… infact in doing so you will be showing everyone you have no ground to stand on and every word you said is nothing more than a psych case crying for attion…
sincerly
LordEris
bd // February 27, 2009 at 3:17 am
guess what? you’re never going to be able to provide “the right information at the right time.” never. never ever. unless…..you connect them to the wearers brain. but, if you do that. you might as well forgo the contact lenses and just get a brain implant. woohoo!
pjwalker911 // February 27, 2009 at 4:01 am
That’s the whole point. These and other technologies are first placed ON the body as a prelude for implanting them IN the body. That’s why I have a problem with them because it is crossing the line into cyborgs. But that is the elite’s agenda to dehumanize us and there are plenty of psychopaths out there who are ready and willing to take that transhumanist plunge because they like the illusion of “enhancement” of their powers. Of course, they are all a bunch of arrogant idiots.
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Just-don't-know // June 30, 2009 at 10:57 pm
I can see many many ways that this could be a good thing; however, I can also see many many ways that it could be a bad thing. Ultimately it is the people who use them as much as if not more than the people who create them that will decide if it is a good or bad thing in the end. I mean imagin if you will a world where all the information that you need is available when you need it, or emergency services that can be alerted while you are unconscious after an attack, perhaps your child is missing and now you can find them, how cool school would be to see what the teacher was talking about instead of listening to hours of lectures… now for a minute imagine people who have hacked the signal so that the world you see is different than the one that is really there will you see the car coming at you? After long term exposure will you be able to tell the difference between reality and the games? so as you can see there are good and bad points to any advancement in technology it is up to us to make sure we use them correctly and that those around us do too.
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