I've always (secretly) wanted x-ray vision. Ever since I was a kid and I saw those glasses that said x-ray vision on them I wanted to try it. Well this may not be what I was thinking, but researchers may be closer to giving us something like it. Maybe I could watch the weather channel -sans all the stupid shows- 24/7. I could finally watch TV with out the kids jumping in and changing it to that stupid Disney channel!
Movie characters from the Terminator to the Bionic Woman use bionic eyes to zoom in on far-off scenes, have useful facts pop into their field of view, or create virtual crosshairs. Off the screen, virtual displays have been proposed for more practical purposes – visual aids to help vision-impaired people, holographic driving control panels and even as a way to surf the Web on the go.
The device to make this happen may be familiar. Engineers at the University of Washington have for the first time used manufacturing techniques at microscopic scales to combine a flexible, biologically safe contact lens with an imprinted electronic circuit and lights.
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