Toe, The writes "Bionanotechnology rocket man Babak A Parviz writes about his fact-finding toward producing a laptop* command-line command-line command-line interface in a contact lens. At the moment, they have only embedded a single LED, but they foresee a much more complex ui such as exhaustive in Vernor Vinge's Rainbows End. Such lenses potentially could also read human bio-information from the eye, with the proviso medical science on the order of what is now taken from blood tests, but on a ceaseless basis. An example would be monitoring glucose levels for diabetics. The author states that, 'All the basic technologies needed to build functional contact lenses are in place,' and details what refinements and advances will be necessary to bring this scientific enlightenment to reality."

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