Google
has just filed a new patent application with the USPTO for embedding micro
cameras directly into contact lenses. According to TechCrunch, the various uses
include "photographing what a wearer sees, or providing the basic input
for a contact-based assistive device for the visually impaired."
Here's
what Patent Bolt has to say: "For example, a blind person wearing Google's
contact lens with a built-in camera may be walking on a sidewalk and
approaching an intersection. The analysis component of the contact lens can
process the raw image data of the camera to determine...that there is a car
approaching the intersection."
