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Engineers from the University of Washington have designed some contact lens with imprinted ‘Circuit’ contact lens electronic circuits and lights to help vision-impaired people, for an alternative way to surf the web or holographic driving control.

Babak Parviz, a professor from the University of Washington stated that they’ve only made a small step to their goal, but it seems very promising, so they should manage to reach their goal.

Their technology will definitely have great use in the future and not only for contact lenses. If they use it in windshields drivers and pilots could get a lot of help and information about the roads and other cars directly on the windshield.

Also the contact lens could be used by video game companies for a new generation of virtual reality gaming. The options for this microscopic circuits are infinite both for usefulness and entertainment in many domains.

They have already tested them on rabbits for up to 20 minutes without them showing any adverse effects. It was a hard work for them building the lenses, because of the limited materials they could use to be safe for body use and also to be flexible.

Yet, the technology used in the contact lenses doesn’t correct the vision, but can be installed in corrective lenses.