High-Tech Glasses Beam Info Directly Onto Your Retinas

The secret specs could allow users to view whatever they care to in privacy

By Jeremy Hsu Posted 10.23.2009 at 3:20 pm 6 Comments

Retinal Viewing Do you see what I see ... of course not Brother Industries

Office workers may never have to worry again about viewing hilarious but NSFW images surreptitiously. A pair of glasses developed by Brother Industries can project images or documents directly onto a wearer's retinas.

The Retinal Imaging Display technology displays a small image 10 centimeters wide that appears to float about 1 meter (3.3 ft) in front of a user's eye. Images have an 800x600 resolution and refresh at 60Hz.

Through the Glasses: A conceptual image of the view through the new specs Brother Industries

Each pair of glasses holds an optical scanner, eyepiece and a light source that also contains a tiny power box. Brother Industries derived its application from laser printing technology, as well as piezoelectric technologies based on inkjet printing.

Similar technologies have tried embedding heads-up displays within the lens of glasses. Other heads-up displays have gone for more specific applications, such as giving drivers a safer experience on the road.

The company has yet to announce how much the specs will cost when it commercializes them next year. But reading those operation manuals hands-free at your desk never sounded so exciting. Those are operation manuals, right?

[via Register Hardware]

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Q42

10/23/09 at 5:19 pm

Sounds fun - although shining lasers into people's retinas is usually a bad thing. Are there any long-term health risks from using this?

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Jivaii

10/24/09 at 4:44 pm

Might be a really low-power laser?

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Jivaii

10/24/09 at 4:45 pm

Might be a really low-power laser?

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fb36

10/25/09 at 2:32 pm

I noticed even there are college students w/ IT majors etc who believe lasers always would blind you!
(So it is impossible to make any type of laser projector because it would be too dangerous.)

Maybe they believe if you feed any laser lower power than blinding level it would just shut down and refuse to work! :-)

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pyro62792

10/27/09 at 3:31 pm

Now all they have to do is get it all into a pair of glasses. And what about those contacts being developed, those are all ran with power stored in them.

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clanck46

11/04/09 at 2:42 pm

thats pretty cool, i wonder if theres any health risks

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