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29 March 2024

Google could fit camera in your eyeballs

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By Joseph George

If a recent patent application is anything to go by, you might soon be able to buy your contact lens equipped with a camera.

The camera will fit into your contact lens, scan and record anything you see at real time and even analyse the object in front of you.

Well, Google Glass has still not hit the stores and here we are already planning its death.

According to a report by Patent Bolt the Google patent points at a very thin camera that can fit into a contact lens without increasing the latter’s thickness. A user will not only be able to see clearly through the transparent camera but it will be aligned in such a way that it can track and generate data of an image or of a scene corresponding to the gaze. What it means is that the camera will be focusing on whatever you will be looking at. As your gaze shifts, the contact lens will follow the move.

What’s more, you may not even need an app on your smartphone or a smart watch or pinch your eyes to control the camera. Google is developing a unique way of controlling the camera through a pattern of blinks.

The technology will be of significant use especially for the blind.

A blind person wearing the contact lens will be immediately alerted – through a voice command on the mobile phone – when a vehicle is passing by the road they are about to cross.

Now imagine if the camera is equipped with an additional lens, be it a zoom lens or a wide angle lens?

According to the article, Google's patent application claim states that "the device could have at least one image capture component like a thin variable lens for focusing”.

The patent application was first filed in 2012 and if you are expecting it to be announced anytime soon, hold on. It has to first go through a series of testing process to pass all safety regulations before it can get into the consumers’ eyes.

Earlier this year Google had announced that it is testing a prototype for a contact lens that would help people with diabetes manage their condition.