Scientists invent micrometers-thin battery charged by saline solution that could power smart contact lenses::Scientists from NTU Singapore have developed a flexible battery as thin as a human cornea, which stores electricity when it is immersed in saline solution, and which could one day power smart contact lenses.

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this type of technology could be revolutionary and restoring people’s eyesight as well

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Contacts? Don’t you need to see for them to help

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Some “blind” people do have data coming in, it’s just so blurry/skewed that it’s worthless. It might be possible to fix this but it would be a case by case basis and likely very expensive. Not all blindness is a world of black

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Even totally blind people can usually detect light as painful, slightly less dark darkness. That’s actually why so many wear dark sunglasses

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I could see some cool military applications for this too.

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Now you can see your friends dying in the next room, instead of just hearing it!

Or if it’s only a map, now you can see how surrounded your unit is!

This is valuable tactical data, surely it won’t cause any morale issues.

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It’s true. All new inventions have a morality issue to them. And those moralities need to be weighed heavily before implementing them.

But it can also be used to guide a secluded operative back to his troop. It can be used to detect road mines that otherwise would have exploded.

New technology is just a tool. It’s the people choosing how to use it that makes it moral/immoral.

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How? Bionic ocular implants already exist. A contact lens is not going to be able to restore sight to the blind.

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perhaps not to the totally blind but to those that have degenerative diseases contact lenses absolutely can help

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