When shoppers are in a store, evaluating which brand to buy, digital signage has the chance to snatch a bit of mindshare at the precise moment a buying decision is being made. Radio, TV, newspapers, magazines and even the Internet cannot make that claim.

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If they can beam dynamic, digital video data to the surface of your eyes, there are going to be advertisers willing to pay for THAT space. I’m telling you, no place is sacred anymore. Signs, signs, everywhere a sign. So, what do you do? Fight the future? Embrace change? Pursue happiness? Rock & Roll! Happy Friday …

“A contact lens that harvests radio waves to power an LED is paving the way for a new kind of display. The lens is a prototype of a device that could display information beamed from a mobile device.”
‘Our hope is to create images that effectively float in front of the user perhaps 50 cm to 1 m away,’ says Parviz.

“Future versions will be able to harvest power from a user’s cell phone, perhaps as it beams information to the lens. They will also have more pixels and an array of microlenses to focus the image so that it appears suspended in front of the wearer’s eyes.”

“Despite the limited space available, each component can be integrated into the lens without obscuring the wearer’s view, the researchers claim. As to what kinds of images can be viewed on this screen, the possibilities seem endless. Examples include subtitles when conversing with a foreign-language speaker, directions in unfamiliar territory and captioned photographs. The lens could also serve as a head-up display for pilots or gamers.”

Contact lenses to get built-in virtual graphics – tech – 12 November 2009 – New Scientist.

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