"We’re starting with a simple product, a contact lens with a single light source, and we aim to work up to more sophisticated lenses that can superimpose computer-generated high-resolution color graphics on a user’s real field of vision."<p>Reading this in a non-fiction context is so exciting.
This is straight out of Rainbow's End by Vernor Vinge <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbows_End" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbows_End</a>
How about skipping the contact lens altogether and using Lasik to etch a conductive surface like circuits onto the cornea itself. It's bio circuitry via laser lithography.<p>Always on augmented reality.
Don't forget with dual contacts we also have 3-D capabilities.<p>3-D, high-resolution, virtual-reality-mapped information, games, communications.<p>This is going to be a very cool technology to check back with in five or ten years.
In reality, I have a hard time imagining that anyone would be able to distinguish anything meaningful from a display on a contact lens. That's like suggesting that you could read a printed word on a contact lens today. You wouldn't be able to focus on something that is directly on your eyeball.<p>I think in addition to the technical challenge of actually getting something like this working in a contact lens, the issue of physically being able to make use of such a device needs to be addressed.<p>To those suggesting a pair of glasses be used instead, I think this is a more practical suggestion for both reasons (the biological and technical). If I try really hard I'm barely able to focus on something as close as my glasses.