Night-vision contacts in Bin Laden raid?


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There is an interesting rumor about Seal Team 6 hardware appearing on the net, starting a couple days ago on military sites. I first heard of this about a week ago and didn't say anything, but now that it's breaking....

Back in 2009 IEEE Spectrum reported that the University of Washington was working on digital contact lenses that could potentially augment vision, including digital overlays etc.

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Since then transparent displays, electronically focussable silicone optics and other enabling techs have been released.

The leaked info is that this tech has evolved into night vision contact lenses, and that they may have been used in the Bin Laden raid. Some rumors say power is supplied by blinking, others not. All say the field of view is 100?-120? wide and 40?-50? high.

This would be a quantum leap in night vision tech, and if combined with the coming tiny high resolution sensors could also provide IR, telescopic and microscopic functions.

I'd have given my right arm to have these in college ;)

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So the video game HUD can now come to real life...or will be able to soon.

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That's pretty awesome, didn't Ghost Recon games have a type of "eye hud" in one of the recent games? I've always thought of those games as "look what the military will do next" in the technology dept, the new cloaking in the new GR that's coming out is supposedly already in the very early testing stages although not at "cloaky" as in the game.

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That's pretty awesome, didn't Ghost Recon games have a type of "eye hud" in one of the recent games? I've always thought of those games as "look what the military will do next" in the technology dept, the new cloaking in the new GR that's coming out is supposedly already in the very early testing stages although not at "cloaky" as in the game.

It's kind of true, just look how scifi, books, comics and such tends to get technology right before reality does. Games are really no different.

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Only to someone also wearing IR goggles. To bare eyes IR is invisible.

Also; there is a coming micro-sensor FLIR tech that can detect body heat & residual heat in objects, and that doesn't requilre an IR floodlight. Example -

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Only to someone also wearing IR goggles. To bare eyes IR is invisible.

Also; there is a coming micro-sensor tech that can detect passive IR - body heat & residual heat in objects - and that doesn't requilre an IR floodlight.

I'm aware of all this. You need the emitter for total darkness though. Especially if you intend to use them inside a windowless building.

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Looks like Geordi LaForge won't have a VISOR after all ... he'll just get cybernetic eyes.

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