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Vision Technologies Shine at CES 2013
Eye2 editor Andrew Karp discovered some "spec-techular" eyewear at the 2013 Consumer Electronics Show, the massive trade show held earlier this month in Las Vegas. Alongside the latest smart TVs, wireless devices, mobile apps, audio systems and video cameras, vendors exhibited an array of eyewear and vision-related products designed to communicate, measure and monitor biometric data and promote wellness.
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Vuzix Smart Glasses M100 Turns Heads at CES
While the world waits for Google to introduce Project Glass, the company's futuristic, head-mounted, wearable computer,
Vuzix Corp. is already turning heads. The company's sleek new Smart Glasses M100, pictured above, was selected as an Innovations 2013 Design and Engineering Best of Innovations honoree at this month's Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas and picked as the best new technology in the Wireless Handset Accessories product category.
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Augmented Reality Contact Features Curved LCD
The Centre of Microsystems Technology (CMST), an affiliate of IMEC (Interuniversity Microelectronics Centre), a micro- and nanoelectronics research center headquartered in Leuven, Belgium, announced last month it has developed an innovative spherical curved LCD display which can be embedded in contact lenses. The first step toward fully pixelated contact lens displays, this achievement has potential wide-spread applications in medical and cosmetic domains, according to CMST.
Unlike LED-based contact lens displays, which are limited to a few small pixels, IMEC's innovative LCD-based technology permits the use of the entire display surface.
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eSight Debuts 'Intelligent Eyewear' for Low Vision Patients
eSight, a Canadian company based in Ottawa, Ontario, is launching what it calls "a new class of wearable, electronic assistive technology designed specifically for low vision." eSight Eyewear modifies whatever the wearer is looking at to maximize the effectiveness of their remaining eyesight, according to the company.
eSight Eyewear incorporates a high-resolution video camera and a bright, high-contrast, "virtual" display for each eye. By enhancing the image that the eyes see, eSight Eyewear can help to improve the wearer's functional vision, the company said. Working with a vision specialist, patients can choose the video processing algorithms that work best for them, including zoom in/out, contrast and color optimization, edge enhancement and brightness control.
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South Korean Researchers Make Strides With Glasses-Free 3D
We've all seen those ads for LASIK that urge people to "throw their glasses away" after having the surgery.
Now a team of South Korean investigators are developing a glasses-free 3D viewing technology for commercial theaters that could let movie goers throw away their passive 3D glasses. According to a paper published recently in the
Optical Society's open-access journal
Optics Express, their new technique can bring this added dimension while using space more efficiently and at a lower cost than current 3D projection technology.
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Andrew Karp, Group Editor, Lenses and Technology
Send us news about new optical technologies, provide us with subjects and/or questions for a future Eye² Q&A or let us know what topics you'd like to see covered. Contact Eye²'s Editor Andrew Karp at akarp@jobson.com.
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