| Contact lenses being developed by Innovega and able to display video clips right in front of the eye could be marketed as soon as 2014, it has emerged.
The Scientific American reports that the lenses, which have benefitted from funding supplied by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and the National Science Foundation, will apply for FDA approval this year.
Steve Willey, chief executive officer of Innovega, told the news provider: "Over the past months, we have demonstrated contact lens-enabled eyewear for mobile devices, including smartphones, portable game devices and media players that deliver panoramic, high-resolution experiences for entertainment and planned augmented reality applications."
Small numbers of the contact lenses will be produced for the defence community before being put onto the commercial market in 2014 or 2015.
The advancement could see people using contact lenses in a similar way to those in Mission Impossible 4, which are connected to an iPhone.
Posted by Helen Smith
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