{"id":90089,"date":"2019-04-29T10:22:25","date_gmt":"2019-04-29T17:22:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/darpa-this-smart-contact-lens-could-give-soldiers-superpowers"},"modified":"2019-04-29T10:22:25","modified_gmt":"2019-04-29T17:22:25","slug":"darpa-this-smart-contact-lens-could-give-soldiers-superpowers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/darpa-this-smart-contact-lens-could-give-soldiers-superpowers","title":{"rendered":"DARPA: This Smart Contact Lens Could Give Soldiers Superpowers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/darpa-this-smart-contact-lens-could-give-soldiers-superpowers.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cSmart\u201d contact lenses sound like something from a sci fi movie \u2014 but they\u2019re real, and they could help troops in the field.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>French engineering school IMT Atlantique <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imt-atlantique.fr\/en\/the-school\/news\/first-stand-alone-contact-lens-flexible-micro-battery\">revealed<\/a> what it calls \u201cthe first stand-alone contact lens with a flexible micro battery\u201d earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p>And, notably, it caught the attention of the U.S. military\u2019s attention: the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is reportedly interested in the contact lens to augment troops\u2019 visual capabilities in the field, <a href=\"https:\/\/taskandpurpose.com\/darpa-augmented-reality-contact-lens\">according to <em>Task and Purpose<\/em><\/a> \u2014 meaning the gadget could represent the augmented contact lens that DARPA has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/2008\/03\/darpa-wants-con\/\">spent a decade<\/a> searching for.<\/p>\n<p><b>Weird Flex<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The biggest challenge that IMT Atlantique engineers encountered was to scale down the battery. But thanks to a newly developed flexible micro battery, they found a way to continuously light an LED light source for \u201cseveral hours,\u201d according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imt-atlantique.fr\/en\/the-school\/news\/first-stand-alone-contact-lens-flexible-micro-battery\">press release<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/darpa-augmented-reality-contact-lens\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cSmart\u201d contact lenses sound like something from a sci fi movie \u2014 but they\u2019re real, and they could help troops in the field. French engineering school IMT Atlantique revealed what it calls \u201cthe first stand-alone contact lens with a flexible micro battery\u201d earlier this month. And, notably, it caught the attention of the U.S. military\u2019s [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":413,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,38,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-engineering","category-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90089","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\/413"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90089\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}