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	Contact Lenses with Mobile Phone Displays

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1-17-2008 5:34 PM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/02b6baad-b1ad-4115-a2f5-8996d80ac7ec/D947CFC6-6615-404F-9C84-2F5EBF79F9CC/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.textually.org/textually/archives/2008/01/018708.htm" href="http://www.textually.org/textually/archives/2008/01/018708.htm" style="font-size: 11px;">www.textually.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.textually.org/textually/archives/2008/01/018708.htm"><H3 class="title">Contact Lenses Could Project Mobile Phone Displays Directly into the Eye</H3></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.textually.org/textually/archives/2008/01/018708.htm"><P> Imagine walking down the street and <B>as your mobile phone rings, the name of the caller suddenly appears floating in the air in front of you</B>. That is one of the possibilities offered by <B>a new contact lens which incorporates electronic circuits which can create a type of heads-up display</B>, right within the eyeball. <A href="http://www.cellular-news.com/story/28676.php?source=rss">Cellular News</A> reports.</p> <P>"Engineers at the <A href="http://www.washington.edu/">University of Washington</A> have for the first time used manufacturing techniques at microscopic scales to combine a flexible, biologically safe contact lens with an imprinted electronic circuit and lights.</P></blockquote><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/clip-icon.gif" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.cellular-news.com/story/28676.php?source=rss" href="http://www.cellular-news.com/story/28676.php?source=rss" style="font-size: 11px;">www.cellular-news.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.cellular-news.com/story/28676.php?source=rss"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.cellular-news.com/img/8C5E133E-4B44-4F19-8545-CDB743E2C66D" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.cellular-news.com/story/28676.php?source=rss"><P class="inner_thumbnail_text">A researcher holds one of the completed lenses</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.cellular-news.com/story/28676.php?source=rss"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.cellular-news.com/img/6D0B8E70-F638-459A-AF9B-1E7417760FA9" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.cellular-news.com/story/28676.php?source=rss"><P class="inner_thumbnail_text">Contact lenses with metal connectors for electronic circuits were safely worn by rabbits in lab tests</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.cellular-news.com/story/28676.php?source=rss"><P>Ideally, installing or removing the bionic eye would be as easy as popping a 
contact lens in or out, and once installed the wearer would barely know the 
gadget was there, Parviz said.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/D947CFC6-6615-404F-9C84-2F5EBF79F9CC/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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