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Rabbit wears lens with imprinted electronic circuits and lights
Researchers used manufacturing techniques at microscopic scales to combine a flexible, biologically safe contact lens with an imprinted electronic circuits and lights. The lens was safely worn by rabbits in laboratory tests.
[Research supported by U.S. National Science Foundation grant ECCS 0644084.]
Read more about this research in University of Washington news release Contact lenses with circuits, lights a possible platform for superhuman vision. (Date of Image: 2007) [Image 1 of 2 related images. See Image 2.]
Credit: Babak Parviz, University of Washington
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