Augmented lenses provide more than just the vision

Given the technology in its entirety we can say that it isn’t going to make it to the common man’s eyeballs anytime soon, but with all the wonders of a contact lens that provides you with analytical information, you can well hope for one soon. Hoping isn’t a sin after all. After watching Doomsday I was pretty bowled over by the concept of an eye that could see things and figure out additional details about it. For instance, your eye functions like one of those all knowing monitors in the FBI offices. ‘Augmented lenses’ is the new term haunting the dreams of our future and for good measure. To sum up all the tiny things that will be accommodated in these lenses we have a prototype that shows single-crystal silicon components, compound-semiconductor components, radio chips, miniscule antennae and an LED or two. Neat setup.