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Samsung gets patent for smart contacts

by on07 April 2016


You control it by blinking

Samsung has come up with contact lenses which are a little more discreet than Google glass and run by the power of blinking.

Samsung has received a patent in South Korea for interactive contact lenses that can receive or send data to a nearby phone.

According to the patent, the way Samsung's "smart" contact lenses integrate a camera, movement sensors, a transmitter, and a display unit in the lenses' glass. They can be controlled by blinking. Which means if you encounter a weeping angel you are doomed.

To take pictures or interact with data displayed on their contact lenses, the user must blink. The motions are picked up by the sensors, and the commands are relayed to the user's phone for processing, with the results being sent back immediately.

The user can stream video or send images to their contact lenses from their smartphone, and send pictures they took with the integrated camera back to their mobile device for storage.

Some circuits are visible in the contact lenses, but they'll be placed towards to glass' edge, not to impede vision or the received images.

At the moment the Samsung's project is more looking at methods of integrating augmented reality with today's devices rather than creating actual products. In fact Samsung’s patent, was filed two years ago and only approved by South Korean authorities two days ago.

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