While YouTuber bkraz333 claims this contact lens with an embedded LED he made was an attempt to add a rudimentary VR display to his eye, I think I know the real inspiration behind it — Terminator cosplay.
If the thought of sticking a regular contact lens in your eye makes you uncomfortable, you might want to be prepared to skip through a few bits in this video. Because bkraz333′s mod features a coil of wire attached to a ridiculously small LED embedded between a couple of soft contact lenses. And since they couldn’t be glued together, he had to fuse them by pinching the edges together with a hot pair of tweezers, with results that look particularly uncomfortable to wear.
Power is cleverly provided by an induction coil held near the eye, which could theoretically be built into a pair of glasses. Although, I guess that would negate the point of building a VR display into a contact lens in the first place. So scratch that idea. In fact, scratch all of this horribly disturbing-but admittedly cool looking-ocular awfulness. [YouTube via Ubergizmo]
Will
Friday, December 23, 2011 at 9:22 AMNice, Now i can fire my lazors out of my eye, like superman.
smurfydog
Friday, December 23, 2011 at 9:23 PMCats already have that technology, but they won’t talk about it.
Zeruel
Friday, December 23, 2011 at 9:29 AMSo you have to blast your eye with magnetic fields and the like to make it work?
S0ULphIRE
Friday, December 23, 2011 at 11:09 AMDon’t worry, hold your crystal anti-EMF protection rock and you’ll be ok.
le sigh….
Mitch
Friday, December 23, 2011 at 10:47 AMWhy did he even bother if the result is that crap? Sliding all over his eye ball. Next!
Sam Timmins
Friday, December 23, 2011 at 12:27 PMDARKER room NEEDED.