…it’s just not evenly distributed”, said William Gibson (a quote that has since been widely quoted by e.g. Tim O’Reilly). What better way to describe my sensation when today I saw this:
“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”. This brought to my mind an “artifact from the future” on Wired Mag a few months ago - Canon contact lenses that come with Google pre-installed:
May not be so long after all before we all carry integrated com-logs with us as envisioned by Dan Simmons in his popular Hyperion series. These ones would be visual, though and run our favorite search engine…
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1 Janne Savukoski // Jan 24, 2008 at 3:32 pm
Whoa, totally awesome. Suddenly, all these folding display concepts started to feel very obsolete. (Like http://gizmodo.com/347272/philips-readius-materializes-with-fold+away-screen). This was pretty much the final sign that we’re really living the future. Definitely couldn’t have expected this kind of stuff to emerge yet.
Can’t wait for these to reach the shelves; not holding my breath, though.
Thanks for the news!
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