Nice contacts

DARPA is working on contact lenses that are supposed to be out in 3-5 years that augment your sight with digital technology. What does this mean? They took a page out of First Person Shooter video games and are putting the ideas to use for reality. The idea is that these contacts will act like the head mounted HUDs that soldiers currently wear. It can display maps and information about the surrounding area for a person.

Right now it’s still in extreme early stages, they’re trying to make it draw power off of the loose radio waves that surround us. I’ve never worn contacts, but if it became part of every day life I might consider it for these things. The idea behind it is pretty nifty, and I foresee it to be used for military applications only when it first comes out (it is DARPA after all), but just like how the internet was originally made for the military, it might come to regular peoples’ lives as well. But if people get distracted by their cell phone while driving, this will probably be worse. =D