I have been seeing news and hearing talks on smart contact lenses for at least ten years (more if it was just speculation). The hurdles to be overcome are just staggering and these have delayed the actual availability of products. Samsung was possibly one of the first “big” companies to …
Read More »Seamless AR on a contact lens
The US Patent and Trademark Office has granted a patent to Samsung for a contact lens embedding a display unit that can be used to overlay artefact images to the vision of the world, effectively achieving a seamless augmented reality experience. Just imagine. You won’t need any cumbersome device to …
Read More »Augmented Machines and Augmented Humans are converging V
The goal of augmenting human capabilities has always been there, for as far as we can tell. The control of fire was a tremendous augmentation that had deep consequences on our species. Cooking food opened up new ways of nourishment and made our species more adaptable to hostile environment and …
Read More »Smart contact lenses talk with your phone
One of the crucial issues in many IoTs is how to power them in ways that they can harvest data and transmit them to a receiver connected to the Internet. Actually the most difficult part is to power the (wireless) transmission because that is where most power is required. Local …
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