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Retinal scanning display glasses are insane
Now here's a little piece of technology I didn't know existed: retinal projectors. This pair of eyeglasses has a retinal scanning display on board, weighing a mere 25g and sitting comfortably on your face. It then "irradiates low-intensity light on the retina and scans it with the light at a high speed." Essentially, it uses your retina as a projector screen and shoots an image right onto it
Holy crap! Since when was it possible to have glasses that beamed an image directly into your eye! Personally, I'd worry that it could malfunction and blind me, but I guess there's no reward without a little bit of risk. OK, fair enough. Bring on the retinal scanning display glasses!
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By Dave at 1:44 PM ON 04/11/08
umm... how is this any different than any other eyeglass display? everything you can see is merely light "being beamed" into your eye. And isn't light, by definition, a high speed (c)?
By Telhunter at 6:28 PM ON 04/11/08
There is no display. It uses laser diodes to literally paint the image on your retina. In other words the back of your eye is the "display".
By Tony B. at 9:10 AM ON 04/15/08
Something similar has been available from a company called Microvision for years. They only had monochrome red as a consumer device, but the one they made for the military had full color. It's definitely weird to have an image beamed directly onto your retina, but it makes for a killer image!
By Cris at 8:58 PM ON 08/22/08
As you can see there are no lenses. The image would appear to be floating in front of you.