Techno-Contacts

Here's what all the cool kids are going to be wearing in 2020:  printed circuit contact lenses. Why? Well, of course they look all cyborgy and cool, but they can also be used to put a display screen right up against your eyeball where nobody else can watch it. There's plenty of legitimate applications -- helping the disabled control things via a computer interface, military targeting devices, wicked cool video games, etc. But it's hard to avoid the thought that the majority of contact-screens will be used for playing games or surfing naughty Web sites when the wearers are supposed to be paying attention to something else. Anyway, there's a neat picture of a bunny with creepy cyborg eyes at the other end of the link.

Comments

[KMcLachlan]

Lookin forward to this tech in a decade or 2. Luckily im young enough that i probably wont be dead by then.

[Thom H.]

Now find an article about cars that drive themselves because between cell phones and eyeball computers, the drivers of the future aren't ever going to be looking at the road. I love these techno-gizmos but they worry me sometimes.
It used to be that when I walked through the park and saw someone gesticulating and talking to thin air, I knew they were a little off kilter but now I don't know if they are borderline psychotic or just using their bluetooth cellphone earpiece. What will it mean in the future when you see someone sitting with a blank stare sort of nodding and shaking their head? Quietly going crazy or reading their email on their contact lens screen?