{"id":77682,"date":"2018-04-10T11:03:21","date_gmt":"2018-04-10T18:03:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/contact-lens-kinda-makes-you-cyborgy"},"modified":"2018-04-10T11:03:21","modified_gmt":"2018-04-10T18:03:21","slug":"contact-lens-kinda-makes-you-cyborgy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/contact-lens-kinda-makes-you-cyborgy","title":{"rendered":"Contact Lens Kinda Makes You Cyborgy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/contact-lens-kinda-makes-you-cyborgy.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This one\u2019s kinda hard to swallow so take a deep breath, open your minds, and pretend it\u2019s 2100. I CONTACT is essentially a mouse fitted to your eyeball. The lens is inserted like any other normal contact lens except it\u2019s laced with sensors to track eye movement, relaying that position to a receiver connected to your computer. Theoretically that should give you full control over a mouse cursor. I\u2019d imagine holding a blink correlates to mouse clicks.<\/p>\n<p>The idea was originally created for people with disabilities but anyone could use it. Those of us too lazy to use a mouse now have a free hand to do whatever it is people do when they sit at the computer for endless hours. I love the idea but there is a caveat. How is the lens powered? Perhaps in the future, electrical power can be harnessed from the human body, just not in a Matrix creepy-like way.<\/p>\n<p>Designers: eun-gyeong gwon &amp; eun-jae lee. <\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yankodesign.com\/2009\/01\/16\/contact-lens-kinda-makes-you-cyborgy\/\">http:\/\/www.yankodesign.com\/2009\/01\/16\/contact-lens-kinda-makes-you-cyborgy\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This one\u2019s kinda hard to swallow so take a deep breath, open your minds, and pretend it\u2019s 2100. I CONTACT is essentially a mouse fitted to your eyeball. The lens is inserted like any other normal contact lens except it\u2019s laced with sensors to track eye movement, relaying that position to a receiver connected to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1523,1499],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-computing","category-cyborgs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77682","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77682\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}