---
title: "Bionic Contact Lenses Made Possible With LED’s"
description: "University of Washington researchers have demonstrated that by using a LED one-third of a millimeter in diameter it was feasible to stream hands-free information across a contact lens"
date: "2014-11-27"
modified: "2014-11-27"
authors:
  - name: "Radu Serban"
    link: "https://futurism.com/authors/techie1986"
url: "https://futurism.com/bionic-contact-lenses-made-possible-leds"
categories:
  - "Future Society"
---

# Bionic Contact Lenses Made Possible With LED’s

![](<https://futurism.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/virtual-reality-contact-lenses-with-terminator-vision.w654.jpg>)

- The researchers tested the safety of the prototype on a rabbit
- At the moment, the contact lens device contains only a single pixel of information, but the researchers say it is a proof of the concept that the device could be worn by a person. Eventually it could display short emails and other messages directly before a wearers eyes
- The contact lens has an antenna to take power from an external source, as well as an integrated circuit to store this energy and transfer it to a transparent sapphire chip containing a single blue LED