In the movie “Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol”, Tom Cruise secretly takes pictures of classified documents by blinking his eye, using ‘smart’ contact lenses. (Image : Pixabay)
SEOUL, April 7 (Korea Bizwire) – In the movie “Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol”, Tom Cruise secretly takes pictures of classified documents by blinking his eye, using ‘smart’ contact lenses.
According to SAM Mobile, a Samsung Electronics blog, the company applied for a patent in the U.S. for ‘the production and usage of smart contact lenses for augmented reality’ in September 2014.
Under normal circumstances, applications at the U.S. patent office are revealed publicly a year and half after they’re filed, and recently information about Samsung’s smart contact lenses was revealed.
The contact lenses are ‘augmented reality devices wearable in the eye’, and are similar to the contacts worn by Tom Cruise in the Mission Impossible movie.
The contact lenses are ‘augmented reality devices wearable in the eye’, and are similar to the contacts worn by Tom Cruise in the Mission Impossible movie. (Image : Yonhap)
An antenna inside the lens transmits information received from the outside to the display inside the contacts. Core functions can be controlled by blinking.
However, considering current technology levels, the lenses are not expected to be commercialized in the near future.
Industry insiders say that the device is still an ‘idea’, and it is still too early to discuss commercialization.
By M.H.Lee (mhlee@koreabizwire.com)
