We conclude our gallery of futurist designs with a couple of things that may well be coming in some form or fashion but, well, we’re just not sure we’re quite ready for these.
The iContact is a contact lens with special sensors that act as a mouse or cursor controlling device fitted to your eyeball.
Using a concept originally developed to assist people with disabilities, Eun-Gyeong Gwon designed the iContact lens to be inserted like any other normal contact lens. Its built-in sensors track eye movement, relaying position information to a receiver connected to your computer.
Unresolved issues remain of how the sensors will be powered but the concept doesn’t seem so farfetched to believe we won’t be seeing this kind of innovation appear over the near horizon.
Finally, the Yousb, a USB body implant for hardcore data transfer.
Alberto Villarreal of Zanic Design admits it’s purely a “visualization” project, but prosthetic device technology is evolving nearly as rapidly as computer and communication technologies themselves. When you think about it, something like this is probably coming down the pike sooner or later.
Later, hopefully.
Lonnie Lazar is a writer-musician-web designer-attorney. He writes about Apple for Cult of Mac and Mac|Life, and about VoIP and telecommunications for Voxilla. Follow Lonnie on Twitter @LonnieLazar, join the Cult of Mac on Facebook, and find Lonnie’s photos on Flickr.
