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1 posted on 04/02/2014 3:26:37 AM PDT by markomalley
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To: markomalley

Oooh... cool.

Matter of time before we have Geordi style contact lenses. Control it with your cell phone and click through the spectrum.


2 posted on 04/02/2014 3:29:54 AM PDT by Crazieman (Are you naive enough to think VOTING will fix this entrenched system?)
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Doesn’t say if it is a starlight device or if an infrared source light is needed


3 posted on 04/02/2014 3:31:43 AM PDT by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: markomalley

Sounds like a wonderful thing to have for long walks in the woods at night; anybody know if this will be as good as/better than a next-generation Night Vision Device (NVD)?


4 posted on 04/02/2014 3:56:34 AM PDT by Jack Hammer
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To: markomalley

The sensor may be contact sized, but not the power supply.


6 posted on 04/02/2014 4:15:15 AM PDT by Yo-Yo (Is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
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To: markomalley

It’s all fun and games until someone turns the lights on.


8 posted on 04/02/2014 4:51:12 AM PDT by WinMod70
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To: markomalley

so, would have to be a “lens cap” on the front of a rifle scope...

Hey EoTech!
Since you’ve already got a battery in there.....

(and I’m too cheap to buy the $2K-20K versions)


9 posted on 04/02/2014 5:25:44 AM PDT by G Larry (There's the Beef!)
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"Seventh line down; F, E, L, O, P, Z, D".

10 posted on 04/02/2014 5:44:49 AM PDT by Flick Lives ("I can't believe it's not Fascism!")
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To: markomalley
I hate contacts. Are they going to make glasses?
11 posted on 04/02/2014 5:50:05 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ("A man who damns money obtained it dishonorably; a man who respects it has earned it." --Ayn Rand)
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To: markomalley

Why as contact lenses? Why not just as simple, thin, light glasses, rather than the binoculars-sized sets we have today?


12 posted on 04/02/2014 6:59:31 AM PDT by Teacher317 (We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men)
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The application they refer to is just one of many that this will be able to be used for based on their description. This could completely change the way that all photo to data electronic transmissions are made across all spectrums and could greatly reduce size/cost of multiple optical, radiation, and/or electromagnetic detection devices. An immediate application I see would be in astrophysics to either 1) increase the sensitivity (thereby obtaining greater data for same size) or 2) reduce the size of the receiver for telescopes (both optical and radio)opening up additional remote siting options.


15 posted on 04/02/2014 8:48:40 AM PDT by reed13k (For evil to triumph it is only necessary for good men to do nothings)
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