Bionic Eyeglasses May Boost Impaired Vision 43
fangmcgee writes with this excerpt from a University of Oxford news release:
"Technology developed for mobile phones and computer gaming – such as video cameras, position detectors, face recognition and tracking software, and depth sensors – is now readily and cheaply available. So Oxford researchers have been looking at ways that this technology can be combined into a normal-looking pair of glasses to help those who might have just a small area of vision left, have cloudy or blurry vision, or can’t process detailed images. ... The glasses have video cameras mounted at the corners to capture what the wearer is looking at, while a display of tiny lights embedded in the see-through lenses of the glasses feed back extra information about objects, people or obstacles in view. In between, a smartphone-type computer running in your pocket recognizes objects in the video image or tracks where a person is, driving the lights in the display in real time. The extra information the glasses display about their surroundings should allow people to navigate round a room, pick out the most relevant things and locate objects placed nearby."
Bah (Score:5, Funny)
No Steve Austin bionic eye sound, no dice. :(
Re:What about shoes? (Score:3, Funny)
In my day we used to have to glue mirrors to our shoes, kids these days got it easy.