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# Internet Accessible Contact Lenses
- URL: https://www.protein.xyz/internet-accessible-contact-lenses/
- Published: 2011-03-28T15:48:06.000Z
- Updated: 2025-05-28T11:03:56.000Z
- Description: Remember when you were little and you thought that in the future we‚Äôd be living more like the Jetsons? Well,…
- Author: Protein
- Tags: Seeds, Technology, #protein, #Import 2024-06-11 13:15, #author-change-2025-05-28

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Remember when you were little and you thought that in the future we’d be living more like the [Jetsons](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%5FJetsons?ref=protein.xyz)? Well, research at the [University of Washington](http://www.washington.edu/?ref=protein.xyz) is looking to get us just that much closer with the possibility of the world’s first Internet accessible contact lens. The research team behind this genius idea has so far managed to create semi-transparent microscale electronics, so the Internet would in theory be viewable from a miniature LCD display that sits on the eye's surface. This could be ultimate augmented reality experience, with general browsing, watching videos and working changing completely. This research lends itself medically to creating bionic eyesight and a means to alleviate blindness.

Imagine all the [YouTube](http://www.youtube.com/?ref=protein.xyz) videos of cats you could watch in the privacy of your own… eyeball? Read more about the science behind it [here](http://spectrum.ieee.org/biomedical/bionics/augmented-reality-in-a-contact-lens/0?ref=protein.xyz).