Solve for X: Babak Parviz on building microsystems on the eye

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Healthcare must leave the hospital and become a 24/7 lifestyle-integrated industry if it is to become as effective and as cost effective as we all hope it can become. To do that, monitoring ourselves continuously is the central problem to be solved. Today body monitors fall into two somewhat unsuccessful camps - implanted monitors and external wearable monitors. What if you could build body monitoring and display elements directly into the contact lens?

Babak Parviz is McMorrow Associate Professor of Innovation at the University of Washington. His areas of research include nanotechnology, micro systems and biomedical devices.

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[Navneet Nair]

Augmented reality could give way to alternate reality...

[Jon Hardcastle]

Awesome.

[Brendan D]

Probably the first consumer step.



[Matthew Livingston]

Reality and alternate reality will become indeterminable from each other

[ebstudioslive]

Google Glass

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Certainly depends on how long you're in the dark and what the actual power source is. Also depends on what display they choose. When it goes to production in 20 years, yes, it will work in the dark.

[65616165165165165198]

I would imagine that it would encrypt the data before sending it over the wireless system.

[l0oky]

I LOVE Solve for X. That's the community I was searching EVERYWHERE! 

[behnamasid2]

Persian people are the smartest people on this planet. 

[notrodash]

Does it work in the dark?