A video camera built into a prosthetic eye has been possible
for some years now and was once not so long ago merely
science fiction. I did not however expect it would become
ordinarily available quite this soon. One wonders at the
consquences for personal rights when for example one would
be obligated to have their eyeball inspected and then left on
a tray as prerequisite for admission to a courtroom.
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chemrox - 16-11-2008 at 17:39
Web cams on patrol cars has resulted in successful prosecutions and firings for police abuses all over the US but especially in the south. What
result from this latest permutation? Make the cops forfeit an eye to public oversight? Recruit one-eyed undercover cops? While all kinds of
fantasies are available they're probably all non-starters. The biggest problem she faces is that there will be no market for these beyond her
immediate quest.hissingnoise - 17-11-2008 at 04:31
At first glance, I thought the article was about developing an artificial eye with all the functions of a real eye, but that, I think, would involve
highly complex surgery.
Perhaps I'm missing part of the picture. . .
On a side-note, it's easy to see why engineers are tripping over themselves to come to Ms. Vlach's aid.
And if the mini-gun doesn't freak the tax out of you he'll threaten to play the role of a great composer. . .
[Edited on 24-2-2010 by hissingnoise]
THAT will definately end the cash crises.
hissingnoise - 24-2-2010 at 10:53
I should get out more. . .franklyn - 24-2-2010 at 17:29
@ dann2 @ hissingnoise
The link I provided is to an article describing a HUD ( head up display )
built into a contact lens. http://spectrum.ieee.org/biomedical/bionics/augmented-realit...
If you don't believe a wearable teleprompter
can be useful to a politician , you're not very astute.
Before making your knee jerk , jerky responses did either of you
even click the link and read the introduction ?
- I thought not.
The reference to Schwartz is from the text , quoted here _
" In the Terminator movies, Arnold Schwarzenegger’s character sees the world with
data superimposed on his visual field—virtual captions that enhance the cyborg’s
scan of a scene. In stories by the science fiction author Vernor Vinge, characters
rely on electronic contact lenses, rather than smartphones or brain implants, for
seamless access to information that appears right before their eyes.
These visions (if I may) might seem far-fetched, but a contact lens with simple
built-in electronics is already within reach; in fact, my students and I are already
producing such devices in small numbers in my laboratory at the University of
Washington, in Seattle "
I think that's worth while knowing about , but then , that's just me
.dann2 - 24-2-2010 at 18:58
Hello,
Take no heed of Kissingnoise as he is always taking the piss!
Politicians have no need for head up or eyeball up displays as they can always just use their hands for displaying info that they will have trouble
recalling
Must admit I did not read the link.
Dann2hissingnoise - 25-2-2010 at 03:26
We can be half-serious all of the the time and fully serious some of the time but we can't. . . dann2 - 25-2-2010 at 05:57
We can be half-serious all of the the time and fully serious some of the time but we can't. . .
If one is half serious all of the time then there is no time left for being any other 'type of serious'.
Let me correct it for you.
We can be half-serious most of the time and fully ................
Or perhaps:
We can be half-serious all of the time or fully serious some of the ...................
Hope you can follow on from there.
You need to brush up on your American, young Watson.
Dann2 (Correction Officer No. 1)franklyn - 25-2-2010 at 16:27
Native New Yorker Allen Konigsberg alias Woody Allen said ,
" Most of the time I don't have very much fun ,
the rest of the time I don't have any fun at all "
