I’ll have mine with telescopic and xray, plz. Oh, and a HUD. Yes, a HUD, with a Terminator-style readout. So far the speculation for these contacts, which are being engineered by the University of Washington, is that they’ll be capable of zoom, possibly wired to monitor the body’s sugar levels for diabetics along with a few other medical possibilities. But something like this opens my eyes to many, many other possibilities, and who knows how much capability something like this could have? They’ve speculated as to the gaming potential, which doesn’t interest me that much right away, but I would be very interested in having this thing wired into the web, giving me immediate access to a HUD-like display of weather radar, GPS, traffic conditions, email, danger warnings (like brake lights ahead), and even restaurant and movie listings, updateable by whatever street you’re walking down. That’s a lot of usability to pack into a dime-sized piece of silicone, but hey, if I’m gonna dream, I’m gonna dream big.
The model is still in testing, and they’re still trying to figure a way to power it wirelessly, but once they do that…. :-)
