04-27-2004, 06:00 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2006
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"Laser Vision" Offers a New Way of Looking at Things
"US firm Microvision has developed a system that projects lasers onto the retina, allowing users to view images on top of their normal field of vision. It could allow surgeons to get a bird's eye view of the innards of a patient, offer military units in the field a view of the entire battlefield and provide mechanics with a simulation of the inside of a car's engine. The system uses tiny lasers, which scan their light onto the retina to produce the entire range of human vision, reported the journal of the Institute of the Electrical and Electronics Engineers, IEEE Spectrum."
Holy sci-fi coming to life Batman! 8O This article goes on to explain some of the possible future implementations, and they sound really exciting. How do you envision technology such as this being implemented?
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04-27-2004, 06:14 PM
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Ponderer
Join Date: Mar 2004
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man looks so much like terminator world to me.... 8O
machines will take over us soon................ :evil: :evil:
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04-27-2004, 06:17 PM
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Theorist
Join Date: Dec 2006
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I just hope that they have some failsafe preventing the laser to kick into overdrive in terms of the laser-light strength. :roll:
Otherwise: "Aarrghh, me eyes are burning!" :?
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04-27-2004, 06:38 PM
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Ponderer
Join Date: Jul 2003
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Must...Terminate...John Conner
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04-27-2004, 06:42 PM
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5000+ Posts? I Should OWN This Site!
Join Date: Jul 2003
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Isn't that what the wrinkly bad guys from The Last Starfighter used? 
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04-27-2004, 07:12 PM
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Intellectual
Join Date: Mar 2004
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I see architechs working on restoration wearing computers which track gps, compass direction, and project blueprints into field of view overlaid on the actual scene the person sees. So looking at a ruined building, where a wall is just a pile, the planner would see the full wall in outline.
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04-27-2004, 07:21 PM
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Swami
Join Date: Feb 2004
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Monocles, they're the future! :wink:
"I say old boy, is that a GL500 monocle you're rather dapperly sporting?" "No old bean, it's the GX600 with the optional voice recognition module". :lol:
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04-27-2004, 07:58 PM
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Moderator Emeritus
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Originally Posted by Jonathon Watkins
Monocles, they're the future! :wink:
"I say old boy, is that a GL500 monocle you're rather dapperly sporting?" "No old bean, it's the GX600 with the optional voice recognition module". :lol:
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:rotfl:
That's hilarious.
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04-27-2004, 08:00 PM
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Ponderer
Join Date: Mar 2004
Posts: 99
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they could add these to the back of smartphones and it would be just like on "Witch Hunter Robin"
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04-27-2004, 08:18 PM
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Ponderer
Join Date: Dec 2003
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Gee, I dunno...it sounds awesome and all, but perhaps there's a chance that people wearing glasses will increase due to using that thing! :? I know it says "Safe to Use" there, but computers/tvs and other electronic equipments are safe to use, yet can have bad effects on the eyes...
I don't think I'll be jumping in to spend lots of money buying this thing :|
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