Sony’s “Recording” Contact Lens
June 7, 2016 | Terry Sharrer
“[Objective] To provide a contact lens and storage medium capable of controlling an image pickup unit provided in the contact lens. [Solution] Provided is a contact lens including: a lens unit configured to be worn on an eyeball; an image pickup unit configured to capture an image of a subject, the image pickup unit being provided in the lens unit; and an image pickup control unit configured to control the image pickup unit.” This is the wording on Sony’s patent application for a recording contact lens—which seems ever so much a “James Bond” device. The patent was granted this past April. MORE
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