Google, Samsung & Sony Patent Contact Lenses With in-Built Cameras

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Image: Users will be able to take photos by blinking. Features such as zoom, image stabilization and even aperture control will be included.

Tech - The future of wearable camera technology is a contact lens. At least, that’s what Google, Samsung, and now Sony seem to think. All three have patented their own contact lens cams in the last 2 years.

Sony is the most recent company to join the fray, as sonyalpharumors pointed out earlier today. Google patented theirs in 2014, Samsung followed suit earlier this month, and now Sony, too, is looking to claim some of the real estate on your eyeball for future photographic use.

According to the patent, Sony’s contact lens might be the most advanced of the three. Not only does the patent show a contact lens with a built-in camera, storage, and transmission unit, the patent says the lens would contain autofocus, zoom, aperture control, and even image stabilization.

Like previous iterations, the camera “shutter” would be controlled by consciously blinking your eye—a type of blink the patent claims the contact could differentiate from a standard blink.

Sources:
http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/1...n-here-we-come
http://mashable.com/2016/04/05/samsu...lenses-patent/
http://petapixel.com/2016/04/28/sony...oogle-samsung/

[Sliske]

O_O

I HOPE YOU WERENT PLANNING ON DOING ANYTHING ILLEGAL

i'll have you know, i have fucking cameras in my eyeballs

O_O

[Zethras]

I can’t be the only one who immediately thought “This would make for some really good POV porn?”

I can’t be.

[Aori]

O_O

I HOPE YOU WERENT PLANNING ON DOING ANYTHING ILLEGAL

i'll have you know, i have fucking cameras in my eyeballs

O_O

Probably wouldn't be something I'd say.. I don't want my eyes scooped out with a spoon.

[wrathblade]

The should really make it so you need a semi working prototype before you get a patent assigned...

feels like there just getting patents for things we can't make for another 50 years....

Also... how annoying will it be to film using these?:P dammit son stop blinking!

[Aori]

I can’t be the only one who immediately thought “This would make for some really good POV porn?”

I can’t be.

I did think great, now my eyes are going to get hacked while I'm in the middle of rubbing one out.

[Garnier Fructis]

School exams will now start with eye exams.

[Sliske]

Probably wouldn't be something I'd say.. I don't want my eyes scooped out with a spoon.

O_O

I hope you realize you're being recorded while you scoop out my eyes

O_O

[Independent voter]

If they patent this stuff they had better be working on it and not patent trolling. I would think these three companies probably are working on something though.

[Celista]

I won't be wearing these until 2nd generation at minimum, sounds like a recipe for permanent retinal damage.

[Aori]

I won't be wearing these until 2nd generation at minimum, sounds like a recipe for permanent retinal damage.

I don't know how these would dissipate heat without burning or irritating your eyes..

[Crillam]

I can’t be the only one who immediately thought “This would make for some really good POV porn?”

I can’t be.

Nope, I thought about a scene in MIP Ghost protocol were Jeremy Renners character uses a contact lens with build in camera.

[Celista]

I don't know how these would dissipate heat without burning or irritating your eyes..

Me either, also electronic parts in a consistently wet/moist environment...

[Powerogue]

I can’t be the only one who immediately thought “This would make for some really good POV porn?”

I can’t be.

You'd better believe that's the first thing people are going to use it for.

[vindicatorx]

I don't know how these would dissipate heat without burning or irritating your eyes..

I think for some they will never be able to handle something like this. Others however like me I mean I still wear gas permeable contacts (hard rigid ones) and I mean I can wear them for days at a time and not have issues.

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You'd better believe that's the first thing people are going to use it for.

Yeah I mean shit they had out VR porn before the main ones were available for sale.

[Sting]

That blinking sounds like a shit system and likely ends up with a stopmotion video of my entire day.

[Aori]

I think for some they will never be able to handle something like this. Others however like me I mean I still wear gas permeable contacts (hard rigid ones) and I mean I can wear them for days at a time and not have issues.

Gas perms are the only option for me for contacts, I can't wear them. My eyes were always bloodshot, irritated and in pain, could never get adjusted to them. Wore them for about 6 months before I threw in the towel, to much of a hassle.

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The should really make it so you need a semi working prototype before you get a patent assigned...

Really? Great, brb off to patent magic laser beam eyeball tech.

[Hooked]

Looks like a good way to catch eye cancer.

[Mistame]

I did think great, now my eyes are going to get hacked while I'm in the middle of rubbing one out.

Always be proud of your midget porn addiction.