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FUTURE ALERT!

Progress made on the contact lens display. You have no idea how amped Kid Various is for this. Contact lens displays which can link to your iPhone to give you 24/7 access to the net and augmented reality?

The future is AWESOME!

A contact lens that harvests radio waves to power an LED is paving the way for a new kind of display. The lens is a prototype of a device that could display information beamed from a mobile device.

Realising that display size is increasingly a constraint in mobile devices, Babak Parviz at the University of Washington, in Seattle, hit on the idea of projecting images into the eye from a contact lens.

One of the limitations of current head-up displays is their limited field of view. A contact lens display can have a much wider field of view. "Our hope is to create images that effectively float in front of the user perhaps 50 cm to 1 m away," says Parviz.