Text messages delivered to your contact lenses!

Nanotechnology has had a significant boom in recent years, since companies have started to “think small.” Technology is constantly increasing at a very fast pace. Think about it, a few years ago nobody had a smart phone and now everybody's using them; and let's face it, smart phones aren't exactly phones any more, but miniature computers.

One element of technological advances that hasn't seemed to move forward until now is utilizing digital technology with the human eye. One of the reasons why this was never a possibility is because of the genetic makeup of the eye and the fact that it can't focus on images that are at a very close range.

Changing the focus of the eye isn't a problem. We've all seen thousands of people wearing glasses and contact lenses to improve their sight, and now many are starting to use laser surgery. The problem with this is that changing the focus of the eye for close range vision meant that normal images would be more difficult to see. This was always a problem until now.

Chent University's center of micro systems technology has created a new form of LED display which which can be planted into contact lenses. Not only is this display able to handle image projection using wireless technology, but it also allows both standard sight and the LED image to remain in focus. But contact lenses which projected images aren't unheard of. They have been designed in the past; however they were only able to transmit a few pixels. The new technology can allow the entire surface of the lens to be used in order to project high quality images. Jelle De Smet, the chief researcher has stated that these contact lenses could be available to the commercial market within the next five years.

Getting text messages delivered to contact lenses could have many benefits in the future. They could be used for medical purposes by controlling light transmission; cosmetic purposes to change the iris a different colour; or simply for general convenience and communication. So now it's time to stop dreaming about the technology we've seen in films for the past few decades and to start getting excited!