Notes from the Consultant’s Jungle

I’ve noticed a few articles in the news about contact lenses that put directly into your field of view things like Heads Up Display functionality, computer screen output, and can potentially deliver things like zoom and night vision capabilities.  A few links to articles are shown below:

 http://www.eetimes.com/news/latest/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=205916535

http://www.gizmag.com/electronic-contact-lens-promises-bionic-capabilities-for-everyone/8689/

http://gizmodo.com/346164/electronic-contact-lenses-give-future-you-crazy-eyesight-heads+up-display

There is truly some opportunity for communication acceleration here.  At a very utilitarian level, this could take multitasking to a new level not seen since Blue Tooth freed our hands while talking on the phone.

- Always-on business dashboards

- Take your NOC with you

- Web conferencing anywhere

- Man-in-the-Middle white boarding

- Location or context-based consumer marketing

- and on and on

What ideas do you have for such a technology?

How we power these things is still a mystery to me.