{"id":28304,"date":"2016-07-26T17:48:17","date_gmt":"2016-07-27T00:48:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/sony-has-filed-a-patent-for-contact-lenses-that-record-and-store-videos-with-the-blink-of-an-eye"},"modified":"2017-06-04T14:30:42","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T21:30:42","slug":"sony-has-filed-a-patent-for-contact-lenses-that-record-and-store-videos-with-the-blink-of-an-eye","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/sony-has-filed-a-patent-for-contact-lenses-that-record-and-store-videos-with-the-blink-of-an-eye","title":{"rendered":"Sony has filed a patent for contact lenses that record and store videos with the blink of an eye"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/sony-has-filed-a-patent-for-contact-lenses-that-record-and-store-videos-with-the-blink-of-an-eye.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019ve seen the dystopian nightmare fuel that is BBC\u2019s <em><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Entire_History_of_You_(Black_Mirror)\">Black Mirror<\/a>,<\/em> you might be getting the \u201cNo no nos\u201d about Sony\u2019s latest patent application \u2014 \u2018smart\u2019 contact lenses with a built-in camera that can record, play, and even store videos right before your eyes.<\/p>\n<p>With <a href=\"http:\/\/www.extremetech.com\/extreme\/180571-google-invents-smart-contact-lens-with-built-in-camera-superhuman-terminator-like-vision-here-we-come\">Google<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/samsung-just-patented-smart-contact-lenses-with-a-built-in-camera\">Samsung<\/a> having already filed patents for contact lenses with tiny, built-in cameras, these things seem inevitable, and they have the potential to change everything about the way we interact with each other\u2026 for better or worse.<\/p>\n<p>So yep, that means in the future we could all be playing back recordings of old conversations to our friends and family <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Entire_History_of_You_(Black_Mirror)\">to win an argument<\/a>, or, you know, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=JKCzGFScAbQ\">watching a \u2018greatest hits\u2019 compilation<\/a> while having sex with our significant other. But we have more faith in the good of mankind than that, right?<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/sony-just-filed-a-patent-for-contact-lenses-that-record-and-play-videos-with-a-blink-on-an-eye\">http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/sony-just-filed-a-patent-for-con...-on-an-eye<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you\u2019ve seen the dystopian nightmare fuel that is BBC\u2019s Black Mirror, you might be getting the \u201cNo no nos\u201d about Sony\u2019s latest patent application \u2014 \u2018smart\u2019 contact lenses with a built-in camera that can record, play, and even store videos right before your eyes. With Google and Samsung having already filed patents for contact [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,1901],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-sex"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28304","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28304"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28304\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66785,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28304\/revisions\/66785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}