You ever seen something extraordinary happen right before your eyes and wish you were recording it? Of course you have, and with modern technology (i.e. handheld devices with video capturing capabilities) it’s been a lot easier for us to quickly pull our mobile devices out, open the camera app, and press record. As convenient as having this newly acquired ability is – it still has its constraints.
Constraints meaning there are certain places or occasions where people are not “allowed” to record video; like in a casino, at a Broadway show, or in a movie theater. There are plenty of other instances where its either taboo or just forbidden to pull out your camera phone and start recording, like in class when your taking a test or when you’re making out with a hotty and you have the urge to capture the moment but you can’t because it would get you expelled or kill the vibe. It’s times like these where I wish I was able to record what I was seeing on demand – to capture my sight by thought.
A common vision of mine (no pun intended) is to, one day, create and manufacture a contact lens that is synced with your thoughts and equipped with a built in nano camera that captures everything your eyes sees with the highest clarity and definition available – a concept I like to call I like to call “The Eye Catcher”. By having the ability to sync recording and live streaming capabilities with one’s thoughts gives its wearer the powerful ability to capture thought-triggered video footage of their live sight on demand. The Eye Catcher will not only have the ability to capture everything one sees – but it will also possess an internal projector that will allow you and only you to see programmed image or video files using a thought triggered browser. While, in the beginning stages, syncing ones thoughts in order to give commands to the Eye Catcher may not yet be feasible due to lack of technology or application, we may have to use a handheld device that communicates with the contact lens though Bluetooth or WiFi technology in the meantime.
Just in case you think this “vision” is too far out or impossible check out this post on Cellular News to see that researchers are already working on similar technologies.
