{"id":99944,"date":"2019-12-19T16:43:03","date_gmt":"2019-12-20T00:43:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/scientists-create-contact-lenses-that-shoot-laser-beams"},"modified":"2019-12-19T16:43:03","modified_gmt":"2019-12-20T00:43:03","slug":"scientists-create-contact-lenses-that-shoot-laser-beams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/scientists-create-contact-lenses-that-shoot-laser-beams","title":{"rendered":"Scientists create contact lenses that shoot laser beams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-create-contact-lenses-that-shoot-laser-beams.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists have created contact lenses which allow the wearer to shoot lasers from their eyes like Superman.<\/p>\n<p>The ultra-thin membranes are placed on the iris and produce a green beam which can shine up to 20 inches from the eye.<\/p>\n<p>Scientists said the beam of light could be used to help in a medical setting or to check for counterfeit banknotes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists have created contact lenses which allow the wearer to shoot lasers from their eyes like Superman. The ultra-thin membranes are placed on the iris and produce a green beam which can shine up to 20 inches from the eye. Scientists said the beam of light could be used to help in a medical setting [\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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99944","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=99944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99944\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}