Augmented Reality Contact Lenses Freak Me Out… and Fascinate Me

This is the most cool/freaky thing I’ve seen in a while: Embedded Augmented Reality contact lenses.

AR Contact Lenses

On one hand anything to do with the eye freaks me out, even more than that scene from Star Trek, The Wrath of Khan when Khan puts that bug thing in Chekov’s ear.

A Rabbit with AR Lenses

Brian Lam at Gizmodo has two posts on the developing tech:

Reality-Augmenting Terminator Vision Contact Lenses Nearly Here (They’re in This Bunny’s Eye)
In These Solar Eye Circuits, Light is the Power and Signal

Scientists right here at the University of Washington are working on mini circuit board contact lenses that will be capable of displaying augmented reality images.

“Embedding” thing in the eye = Freaky
Augmented reality in contact lenses = Freaky Cool

According to the posts all the tech exists, it works, they’re just perfecting it. The most recent post reports that they’ve even solved the power supply issue by using solar power.

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BTW if you want to compare what’s freakier, that bunny with the lens in or the scene from The Wrath of Khan, here’s an extra creepy German version of the Chekov ear bug scene:

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