It's no secret that I've always wanted Terminator eyes — you know, the kind where a head-up display pops into your field of vision, updating you about your surroundings via head-up display and instructing you how to say things like a normal human, and not a killing machine.
My dream is one step closer to reality, now that engineers at the University of Washington have built flexible, biologically safe contact lenses that incorporate lights and circuits. These prototypes contain electrical circuits as well as red-light emitting diodes for the display; when tested on rabbits for 20 minutes, the animals showed no adverse effects, except a sudden desire to search for and eliminate John Connor.
A full-fledged display isn't available yet, but basic displays with a few pixels of info could be readied for applications in the very near future.
