Friday, February 10, 2006

Super lenses

About damn time for this too. Superman was able to see a skeleton in the wall last night on Smallville, otherwise Chloe would have gone to the funny farm. Whew!

Boing Boing: A Directory of Wonderful Things: "Smart lenses for super vision
Ron Blum is an ophthalmologist who is developing eyeglass lenses that apparently can give the wearer super vision. The system is based on 'intelligent' lenses made up of electronically-controlled 'pixels' that can be discretely adjusted. Blum claims that his PixelOptics lenses will not only correct the wearer's vision but could also boost it to better than 20/20, possibly even better than 20/10. Blum's company just scored a $3.5 million Department of Defense grant to build a prototype that he hopes will be ready in a year."

The Wired Article

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