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The Bionic Lens Here’s the University of Washington original story: //Contact lenses with circuits, lights a possible platform for superhuman vision//: http://uwnews.washington.edu/ni/article.asp?articleID=39094 “ 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 cross-hairs. 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. “The UW engineers used microscopic scale manufacturing techniques to create a flexible, biologically safe contact lens with imprinted electronic circuits and lights. If used by human beings, a pair of contact lenses with circuits and lights would be the perfect display for augmented reality systems.      ([|Contact lens with circuits close-up]) ‘Looking through a completed lens, you would see what the display is generating superimposed on the world outside,’ said Babak Parviz, a UW assistant professor of electrical engineering. ‘This is a very small step toward that goal, but I think it’s extremely promising.’” Here’s the DVice article: //Bionic vision contact lenses being developed// : http://dvice.com/archives/2008/01/bionic_vision_c.php

