Should have 2014 in the title.<p>They demonstrated a technology the size of a contact lense, but did not make a functioning prototype that resides on an eye.<p>Still a neat approach.
Terrible, horrible click-bait title.<p>Lenses. do. not. work. this. way.<p>You can't coat a contact lens with a magical coating that expands your ability to see.<p>This particular technology allows you to build infrared light detectors, as in photo cells or pixel arrays. You can make them as thin as you want -- they're going to do fuck all on a contact lens.<p>This whole article should die in a fire.