3D-Capable Contact Lenses Pair with Smartphone to Shoot Images Directly into Eyeballs

In the last couple years, many tech companies have been jumping on the augmented reality bandwagon, but there remain few elegant applications of the technology. Now comes an idea by a U.S. company, Innovega, to produce the um, eye-popping augmented reality contact lens, the iOptik. The company has announced they would have the product ready by 2014, and they will be able to project images on the eyeball by making use of a companion pair of glasses acting as a see-through screen.

Innovega says the resulting image would be the equivalent of standing 10 feet from a 240-inch television screen. Connected to a

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