Google is continuing to push forward on the wearable technology, announcing it has filed a patent for contact lenses that have a tiny camera on them, making Google Glass seemingly appear archaic even before its general public launch later this year. Having a camera on your eye may not be a thing of science fiction and Google believes it can take the world there.
The company says it has a patent pending for what would see contact lenses with a small camera and sensors placed into the lens that could be controlled simply by blinking. This, Google believes, would assist the blind in managing their daily lives as well as allow those who can see to take pictures by just looking at what they want to record.
Don't get your hopes up just yet, as the patent pending is still only a hypothetical future tech, with the patent taking from the controversial Google Glass head wear and the company's tear-scanning contact lenses.
The idea driving the future contact lenses is the blind and vision-impaired. The company hopes that the lenses can assist them in crossing roads and managing blockages in their path by sending signals to an accompanying smartphone that warns of pending problems.
Although Google had submitted the patent in 2012, the company only revealed the new technology idea on April 15 as its Glass was being given a one-day sale across the country and continues to change public perception of the glasses which have sparked attacks and isolation for those wearing them.
The proposed lenses could enable those not vision-impaired the opportunity to view the world in a completely different manner, changing focus and using a wider view of the world, all through blinking and thinking.
Like Google Glass, the new contact lenses could provide even more turmoil in the realm of privacy, with those who have attacked Glass as infringing on one's right to privacy - Glass users can take video and images through simple voice commands - coming out in full forced against the proposed lenses. It could continue to create major schisms in the public over Google and its future-thinking technologies.
Even still, the techies across the globe are likely whetting their appetites for a new, vastly futuristic product that could continue to change the technology that we could one day be wearing on our heads, or in our eyes.
