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The Display of the Future Might Be in Your Contact Lens

posted by Fnord666 on Tuesday January 21 2020, @03:27PM   Printer-friendly
from the never-miss-a-tweet dept.

MrPlow writes:

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A glance to the left. A flick to the right. As my eyes flitted around the room, I moved through a virtual interface only visible to me—scrolling through a calendar, looking up commute times home, and even controlling music playback. It's all I theoretically need to do to use Mojo Lens, a smart contact lens coming from a company called Mojo Vision.

The California-based company, which has been quiet about what it's been working on for five years, has finally shared its plan for the world's "first true smart contact lens." But let's be clear: This is not a product you'll see on store shelves next autumn. It's in the research and development phase—a few years away from becoming a real product. In fact, the demos I tried did not even involve me plopping on a contact lens—they used virtual reality headsets and held up bulky prototypes to my eye, as though I was Sherlock Holmes with a magnifying glass.

Source: https://www.wired.com/story/mojo-vision-smart-contact-lens/

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  • (Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 21 2020, @04:43PM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 21 2020, @04:43PM (#946387)

    A startup that is in for the second round of financing shows their investors and, incidentally, a journalist that they've not been blowing the first-round capital on blackjack and hookers, but that they've been doing, real actual, useful and most of all very, very, VERY! promising work (that's the startup's version of the story, anyway). Results are so very promising, that even a first press preview could already be done.

    The investors shared or did not share the startup's opinion. To opine on that would require market and technology knowledge that I do not have.

    The journalist, from beginning to end, didn't realize the theater he was invited to - or part of?

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 21 2020, @06:37PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 21 2020, @06:37PM (#946462)

    You're probably correct about the VC part of this, but it doesn't mean the journalist doesn't know this. There is nothing wrong with a tech status update story, and as future tech goes, this does make a good story.

  • (Score: 2) by krishnoid on Tuesday January 21 2020, @07:56PM

    by krishnoid (1156) on Tuesday January 21 2020, @07:56PM (#946508)

    And even beyond the blackjack and hookers, they offered a guarantee [youtube.com]!