Random aside: Okay, this totally has nothing to do with this blog (but perhaps the next one.... ^^), but I just read possibly the GREATEST blog post ever while I was looking up how to say something in Elvish...which I obviously failed to find. Perhaps I should join the Elvish Linguistic Fellowship (I thought there was a uni that taught it too...but I can't find it. 8( Though I did use an online translator and apparently my name is "Ereg" (air-egg) in Elvish. I guess that's the one lucky thing about having one of the dumbest and most English names ever, and being named after a friggin' bush, ...the elves will know how to say your name in elvish. ^^)... Anyways, rant aside, this scifi geek explained the most base aspects of linguistics...using a half elf and the world of LotR. SO AWESOME. OMG, I think I pooped my pants in joy. o.O (Yeah, I linked the blog post to the "OMG WHAAA???" face. -.-) Okay, I think I'm going to stop geeking out...because I just spent nearly and hour surfing the web for sites dedicated to Tolkien's world and languages. There is definitely going to be a post on this tomorrow. 8D
But for now, out of the past and back to the future!!
Lol. Michael J. Fox, you dog. ;)
So, while I was researching for my blog post on the crazy technology of the future, particularily the inventions we thought were so far out of reach but may be closer than we though, I came across this insane creation.
Holy shit! A mouse wearing a contact! -.- No, actually, I'm just cringing at the thought of putting that thing in my eyeball! Christ. I mean, I wear contacts almost 24/7 (lasik surgery scares the crap out of me...) but I cannot imagine putting THIS into my eye, even if it did give me bionic vision, not that it would be very useful because the friggin' chip would probably block out about 60% of my field of view. But apparently it works (the mouse said so).
Also, according to the 2008 January release of Gizmag, this is pretty old news. But considering the fact that I haven't heard anything from the scientists since 2008...I'm wondering how the research on these puppies is going. o.O But nevertheless, the research conducted by the scientists over at WashU is fascinating. Basically, the contacts are outfitted with an electronic circuit and lights (no idea what the lights are for). These optoelectronic devices are pretty much ripping to shreds the trend of creating smaller and smaller computers, because how much smalled can you really get than that. FINALLY, I will be able to have similar technology to the epicness that was seen in the most recent renditions of IronMan (even if Tony's lab looks infinitely cooler than this weird electronic contact...)!! XD
You all know what I'm talking about (the scene in IM2 where Stark discovers the new element with the 3D,blue, semi-translucent computer generated graphics (no idea what you would call that technology...yet another gap in my geek knowledge 8( )...). Yeah, that. THAT would make me cum, instantaneously. Seriously, how sexy is that!?!?! The project director must also love the IronMan special effects as Gizmag details,
"Project head and Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering Babak Parviz envisages that his team’s electronic contact lens will offer the ability to superimpose a transparent high resolution display over the field of vision of one, maybe both eyes of the wearer .
'Looking through a completed lens, you would see what the display is generating superimposed on the world outside," says Parviz.'"
That's pretty sweet, I'm not going to lie. And the fact that you could creep out your kid siblings by wearing the lenses is not half bad either... The article also hails this recent development as the "beginning of the Computer Human Interface of the future." And when you put it like that it doesn't sound so bad eh?? The researchers seem to be slightly inspired by the recent up-swell of MEMS no? The article at Gizmag is really long, so I'm not going to go into the epically awesome details, but I will advertise (the lazy way out always wins!!)!! Basically, the lenses would utilize AR (Augmented Reality) which is different from VR because instead of artificially constructing an entire environment, AR simply superimposes on top of what you are really seeing. As Gizmag explains, you could go to Rome and have AR create the buildings and structures as they were in their peak from the ruins. So, it's pretty sweet. I mean, VR is great, but I don't want the future to become overwhelmed with the question of is this reality or not?? Maybe the question of is this rock real or superimposed is a little less daunting (I know, barely...). Anyways, the article also elaborates on the bionic zoom, bio-sensing and a wearable health monitoring system capabilities of this eyepiece. Looking more interesting isn't it?? So, what are you waiting for?? Check it out! Because I'm tired of trying to explain something I just learned about to you, you dumbasses. ;) Also, that happy-go-lucky tourist director voice sounds so douchy in my head. o.O
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