LCD Contact Lens

In a couple of year you might be receiving text messages directly to your contact lenses...

The human eye. Beautiful, complex, and the next forefront of technological development.

Imagine placing an LCD display on your contact lens. Then you could receive emails right in front of your eyes. Or you could display text, images, or even adds on the outside of your contact lens for other people to see...

...which is exactly what scientists in Belgium are working on right now.

"The contact lens is still transparent but is able to modulate the transmitted light using LCD technology. Direct applications could be medical, as an artificial iris, or cosmetic, as an iris with tunable color, or it just could serve as a gimmick. When worn, the image would only be visible to bystanders, since the eye cannot focus on objects in such a close proximity. Research is currently being performed to solve the focusing problem and to see whether an embedded contact lens display that can be seen by the lens wearer is feasible," says the researchers at the Center for Microsystems Technology, Ghent University, Belgium.