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Eyewear Captures Spotlight at Wearable Technologies Show
By Andrew Karp
Recon Instruments, a Canadian company that make Heads-up Displays for action sports, was named
WT Innovator of the Year at the
Wearable Technologies Conference. The conference was held Feb. 3 to 6 in Munich in conjunction with the ISPO, the biggest international multi-segment trade show for sports and health industry.
Recon's HUDs, which incorporate a micro-computer, are used in ski goggles made by Oakley, Smith Optics, Scott, Uvex, Zeal Optics, Alpina and Briko. Users can see unobtrusive real-time performance information (including speed, jump airtime and altitude) navigation, buddy tracking, and smartphone connectivity, transmitting SMS, caller ID and music playlists, instantly direct-to-eye via a micro LCD screen mounted inside the goggles frame.
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New Lenses Help Medical Professionals See Blood
2AI Labs, a think tank dedicated to research about cognition and perception in humans and machines, has developed a lens called the O2Amp that helps medical personnel see blood more clearly.
Mark A. Changizi, PhD, a theoretical neurobiologist, science writer, and author, who is director of human cognition at 2AI, has shown that the human eye is specifically tuned to see blood, and the amount of oxygen in blood, right through the skin. According to 2AI, its patented O2Amp lens technology perfects what your eyes do naturally, by removing "noise" from the blood signal, thus giving phlebotomists, doctors and other healthcare professionals a clearer view of their patients, their health, vitality, and state of mind.
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Sonar Vision System Helps Blind to 'See'
A "sonar vision" system that enables people who are blind from birth to perceive the shape of a face, a house or even words and letters, is being developed by a team at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, according to an article published on the website of
CEA, the French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission. Using this device, the researchers have shown that, in people who are blind from birth, the areas of the cerebral cortex normally devoted to reading become activated in response to stimulation. The results of this study, conducted in conjunction with researchers at the ICM Brain and Bone Marrow Institute Research Center (Inserm/UPMC/AP-HP) and NeuroSpin (CEA-Inserm), were published in the research journal Neuron on November 8, 2012.
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With Tobii's Gaze, Your Eyes Become the Mouse
By Andrew Karp
One of the most exciting technologies I experienced at last month's CES (Consumer Electronics Show) in Las Vegas was
Tobii's Gaze system, which allowed me to control a computer screen with only my eyes—no mouse or track pad was necessary. With Gaze, I was able to select, scroll, zoom and navigate faster and more intuitively by combining my gaze with traditional controls. A major "wow" experience, and lots of fun, too.
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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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