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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/
(Score: 4, Informative) by VLM on Tuesday January 21 2020, @05:12PM (5 children)
People share chargers all the time.
This is gonna be gross. "Can I borrow your charger?" "Sure bro" /bro sticks USB micro plug in other bro's eyeball
More seriously its gonna be gross at work and elsewhere when "over-sharers" want to dip into my saline solution charger thingie and I'm like no I think you have HIV or at least pink eye so you can PLEASE use your own charger, K thx bye. And they always act all butthurt when I don't want their earwax covered bluetooth earpiece on my desk charger already, so "Apple iBall" chargers are going to be a new level of gross.
On the bright side its not as gross as borrowing someone else's charger for a teledildonic device.
(Score: 2, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 21 2020, @07:27PM
I'm sure we can assume the manufacturers will put safety, security, and hygiene first when it comes to these wonderful Eye-o-T devices. It will be perfectly safe to share chargers. There's no possibility that someone will be able to spam ads across the viewing surface, and any ads which might somehow accidentally get through will absolutely NOT be able to interfere with the user's line of sight. It will not be possible to distract or block the view of anyone wearing these while walking, biking, or driving.
Really.
(Score: 2) by takyon on Tuesday January 21 2020, @08:02PM (2 children)
Power will be wirelessly transmitted to the device.
Maybe it shouldn't contain a battery though. Don't want that area burnt.
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(Score: 2) by MostCynical on Tuesday January 21 2020, @08:07PM (1 child)
So, what happens to the wires from the battery?
"I guess once you start doubting, there's no end to it." -Batou, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Tuesday January 21 2020, @09:13PM
They melted when the insulation gave up and the battery shorted.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 4, Funny) by darkfeline on Tuesday January 21 2020, @09:42PM
This is the perfect application for solar power. Need a charge? Just stare at the sun for a few minutes.
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