{"id":116817,"date":"2020-12-08T13:24:40","date_gmt":"2020-12-08T21:24:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/finally-a-contact-lens-that-actually-beams-lasers-from-your-eyes"},"modified":"2020-12-08T13:24:40","modified_gmt":"2020-12-08T21:24:40","slug":"finally-a-contact-lens-that-actually-beams-lasers-from-your-eyes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/finally-a-contact-lens-that-actually-beams-lasers-from-your-eyes","title":{"rendered":"Finally, a Contact Lens That Actually Beams Lasers From Your Eyes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/finally-a-contact-lens-that-actually-beams-lasers-from-your-eyes.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Circa 2018<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Scientists have created an ultrathin, flexible film that can emit laser light \u2014 and successfully tested it on a contact lens, demonstrating the possibility of laser eye-beams.<\/p>\n<p>Before you rush out and buy a <a href=\"http:\/\/marvel.wikia.com\/wiki\/Cyclops_Visor\">Cyclops-style visor<\/a>, it\u2019s not even close to powerful enough to cause damage. Instead, the researchers say, the technology has potential for use as wearable security tags, or even as a type of laser barcode.<\/p>\n<p>The membranes containing the material are less than a thousandth of a millimetre thick, and flexible, which means they can easily be stuck to, or embedded into, polymer banknotes, or the soft plastics used for flexible contact lenses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Circa 2018 Scientists have created an ultrathin, flexible film that can emit laser light \u2014 and successfully tested it on a contact lens, demonstrating the possibility of laser eye-beams. Before you rush out and buy a Cyclops-style visor, it\u2019s not even close to powerful enough to cause damage. Instead, the researchers say, the technology has [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1492,1977],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-security","category-wearables"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116817\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}