The Samsung registered patent in South Korea a smart contact lens that will have camera and other commands activated by flashes of the user, as revealed this week SamMobile, site specializing in brand new.
the new patent issued shows that the lens has a small display, antenna, camera and various sensors that capture flashes and movements of the eyeball. She will need to communicate with an external device such as a smartphone, to render the content produced by the lens and displayed for anyone to use.
The promise is that contact lenses suited as a more natural way to provide augmented reality compared to glasses. It is expected, however, that a product like this generates controversy when advertised fact, since raises privacy issues from the moment you can hide a camera in one eye.
Before Samsung, Google announced in early 2014 that was playing a similar design with smart contact lenses. Later that year the project resulted in an agreement with Novartis Pharmaceutical to license lenses “smart” to help diabetics measure the level of glucose in the blood or restore the ability of the eyes to focus on an object.
Despite of Samsung’s patent only have come out now, she was asked two years ago, which shows that the south Korean brand is also eyeing the area for some time.
Recently, Samsung also made the registration Gear Blink name, which led to speculation about the possibility that he is directly connected to the smart lens design, but there was no confirmation of the brand about it.
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