8bitfuture:

Innovega to release contact lens displays.

Innovega Inc has developed contact lenses capable of presenting high resolution images for entertainment or augmented reality applications.

“Conventional mobile device screens are too small to read and certainly too small to enjoy. Over the past months we have demonstrated contact lens enabled eyewear for mobile devices including smartphones, portable game devices and media players that deliver panoramic, high-resolution experiences for entertainment and planned Augmented Reality (AR)* applications”, said Steve Willey, Innovega CEO. “During this same period, we collaborated with partners to finalize initial specifications of launch platforms which include a screen size that is equivalent to a 240 inch television (viewed at a usual distance of 10 feet)”.

The lens uses ‘micro components’ which are so small that, when switched off, the user is able to focus normally on everyday objects. When switched on, it allows light from the display to pass through the center of the pupil, and light from the surrounding environment to pass through the outer portion of the pupil. Each of these sets of light rays produces an image on the retina simultaneously with the other set. They are superimposed to form a single integrated image.

While a consumer release of the product is likely 2-3 years away, the company is also working with DARPA for a military version of the device.

8bitfuture:

Video: Tiny electronic device can swim through your bloodsteam, deliver drugs.

Stanford University Engineers have developed a wireless, self-propelled device, able to be controlled through the bloodstream via an external, handheld transmitter. The device can be used to deliver a payload of drugs to a targeted area, and is powered wirelessly using electromagnetic waves from the transmitter, which is held over the body to guide it.

The device is only 2 square millimetres.

mskhelad:

Feb 28, 1953:
Watson and Crick discover chemical structure of DNA.
Rosalind Franklin controversy. 

A larger controversy arose over the use Watson and Crick made of research done by another DNA researcher, Rosalind Franklin, whose colleague Maurice Wilkins showed her X-ray diffraction images of DNA to Watson just before he and Crick made their famous discovery.

Her data, according to Francis Crick, was “the data we actually used” to formulate Crick and Watson’s 1953 hypothesis regarding the structure of DNA. Franklin’s X-ray diffraction images confirming the helical structure of DNA were shown to Watson without her approval or knowledge.

Franklin, who died in 1958 of ovarian cancer and was thus ineligible for the award, never learned of the role her photos played in the historic scientific breakthrough.

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ianbrooks:

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