Google has developed a new breed of smart contact lenses that are injected into the eyeball.
The April 28 patent explains how the device would replace the eye’s natural lens, which rather shockingly would be removed first.
The liquid, which would solidify and bind to the eye’s lens capsule, would correct vision problems.
However, there is much more to it than that. There are memories, sensors, radio, a battery and an electronic lens. The device would contain an “energy harvesting antenna” that would continuously power it.
There will also be an external device containing a processor that would communicate with the computer in your eyeball. Communication is enabled via the radio. The ultimate goal would allow the electronic lens, as Forbes puts it, “to assist in the process of focusing light onto the retina of the eye.”
This isn’t Google’s first retina-focused venture. The company has long been working on a contact lens that measures glucose to help fight diabetes.
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This project is now under the control of the Verily Life Sciences division under the Alphabet umbrella. This new smart lens lists the same inventor on the patent.
Would you allow Google to inject memory, sensors and a radio into your eyeball? No, neither would we.