{"id":24393,"date":"2016-04-07T11:17:09","date_gmt":"2016-04-07T18:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/samsung-is-developing-a-contact-lens-camera-triggered"},"modified":"2017-06-04T20:03:09","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:03:09","slug":"samsung-is-developing-a-contact-lens-camera-triggered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/samsung-is-developing-a-contact-lens-camera-triggered","title":{"rendered":"Samsung is developing a contact lens camera, triggered by blinking, that can also project images into the eye"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/samsung-is-developing-a-contact-lens-camera-triggered-by-blinking-that-can-also-project-images-into-the-eye.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Samsung is exploring the development of a contact lens that can project images directly into the users\u2019 eye, take photographs and connect wirelessly to a smartphone, a patent application has revealed.<\/p>\n<p>The South Korean copyright authority has published a 29-page application made by the consumer electronics firm two years ago, reported the technology blog Sammobile, offering a rare insight into a science fiction vision of a future technology that could be closer than we think.<\/p>\n<p>The lens could overlay internet-connected services directly into the user\u2019s line of sight, in an example of what is known as augmented reality. It could also discreetly \u2013 even covertly \u2013 take photographs. The device would be controlled by eye movements or blinking, according to the patent, and it would connect with a smartphone.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/world\/article\/1934175\/samsung-developing-contact-lens-camera-triggered-blinking-can-also\">http:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/world\/article\/1934175\/samsung-devel...g-can-also<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Samsung is exploring the development of a contact lens that can project images directly into the users\u2019 eye, take photographs and connect wirelessly to a smartphone, a patent application has revealed. The South Korean copyright authority has published a 29-page application made by the consumer electronics firm two years ago, reported the technology blog Sammobile, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1498,1694,418,1512],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-augmented-reality","category-electronics","category-internet","category-mobile-phones"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24393","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\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24393"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24393\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67776,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24393\/revisions\/67776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}