Though I'm visually impaired, I've never been much of a contacts guy. Something about having something on my eyes all the time freaks me out. Though, my glasses never do project images that I can see just by having my eyes open. While contacts could for a while, the technology has gotten even better.

The previous displays, like the one linked above, could only show a few pixels to make up an image. As it would on a computer screen, this limits the quality of shown images. It also limits exactly what can be shown.

Researchers at Ghent University have now developed a curved LCD display which uses the entire surface of the lens.

"This will never replace the cinema screen for films. But for specific applications it may be interesting to show images such as road directions or projecting text messages from our smart phones straight to our eye," said Jelle De Smet, the chief researcher on the project.

Text messages in our eyes. The anti-social media folks will have a ball with that one.
Wit this technology, folks could also change the color of their eyes several times throughout a day. Nuts.

Take a look at this tech in the video below.

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Many small-business owners are embracing new technologies to manage confidential business and personal information. This has many benefits, but privacy isn’t one of them. Beyond security risks, many new types of information storage aren’t covered by existing privacy and consumer protection laws. As a result, the information can be accessed by government and law enforcement officials without a warrant and in many cases without even letting you know. While Congress has introduced legislation to address this problem, nothing has been signed into law.

Although the iPhone 5 was released just over two months ago, purported images of an iPhone 5S have now been revealed. To add credence to the leak, reports have suggested that the new model may even be scheduled for a launch in early 2013.

Outed on a forum run by iPhone5parts, the rumored iPhone 5S sports an exterior design that's strikingly similar to the iPhone 5. No surprises there, of course, when you consider how Apple made the iPhone 4S almost completely identical to its predecessor. The rear of the device could actually pass as an iPhone 5 had it not it been for some specific information (like the serial number) being replaced with "x." We're presuming that indicates the images depict a prototype, but there definitely are minor differences from the iPhone 5, like different placement for the screws on the inside of the case.

It's widely expected that the iPhone 5S will be a minor upgrade, with Apple predicted to implement internal improvements over design changes, as was the case with the iPhone 4S. These leaked images, if they're legit, would seem to confirm that. The iPhone 4S saw the incorporation of a dual-core A5 CPU alongside a new dual-core GPU that boosted graphics performance by a factor of seven. More notably, the iPhone 4's antennae were revamped to remedy the infamous signal problem.

Apple was criticized after the iPhone 5's announcement for its latest smartphone not offering much of an upgrade from the iPhone 4S. Apart from having a bigger screen size and a lightning connector, everything else stayed more or less the same. But with Samsung rumored to be integrating a 10-megapixel+ camera into the Galaxy S4, Apple may look to deliver a better camera than the iPhone 5. It may also aim to offer a better screen, with the current Retina display (326 PPI) being left in the dust with the latest/upcoming smartphones such as the HTC Droid DNA, which boasts 440 PPI.

Personally, I'd like to see some major improvements that will deliver a completely different offering when compared to the iPhone 5. NFC has been picking up steam in the industry so that would be a welcomed addition, as would an OLED screen, and with wireless charging now being implemented into more smartphones (like the Nokia Lumia 920 and Google's Nexus 4), that would also be a compelling component. The latter in particular may come into fruition based on Apple's recent patent on the technology.

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Earlier this year, amateur gunsmiths got together to see if they could print out some parts that could be used to construct a fully functional AR-15 semi-automatic rifle. Last weekend, a 3D-printed lower receiver was tested to failure shooting real bullets, and made it through six shots before suffering what you could legitimately call a catastrophic structural failure.

The dream (or is it a nightmare?) of many robotics fans is encountering a robot that can not only walk, but fly as well, making it unstoppable. Although it's nothing close to the walking and flying Gundam robots of Japanese anime, a new robot has indeed achieved the goal of ground and aerial locomotion.

It's hard to imagine a more effective way to assert your nation's superpower status than by having your very own Death Star. Now U.S. Citizens can voice their support for building the ultimate weapon, by signing a petition on the official White House website.

One of the first things that you learn in molecular biology is how the structure of DNA is a double helix. We've known this for a long time, but just through doing clever science, not because anyone had ever seen a DNA molecule before. For the first time, scientists at the University of Genoa have taken a picture of DNA, and happily it really is a double helix.

The structure of DNA was first worked out back in the 1950s using a technique called X-ray diffraction. X-rays are fired at a crystalline material (DNA's regular and repeating structure counts) and then the resulting image, which just looks like a pattern of dots, is mathematically analyzed to derive the structure that created it. Here's what an X -ray diffraction image of DNA looks like:

That may be good enough for all y'all fancy scientists out there, but the rest of us would feel a lot better seeing a real picture of DNA, and the one you've seen up at the top of this article is the first of its kind. It's an electron microscope image of six strands of DNA wrapped around a seventh (such that it looks like a hexagon in cross-section), because the electron microscope itself is powerful enough to smash through single strands of the molecule. The most difficult part of the process was sample preparation: using a surface covered in water-repelling nanopillars, researchers were able to stretch out the DNA strands nice and straight for the pictures.

We'd all still like to get a snapshot of just one single strand of DNA, and the researchers say it should be possible to do that in the near future: they'll just have to use more sensitive detectors that can respond to electrons fired at low enough energies to leave individual strands intact.

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