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Google reportedly adds camera to smart contact lens technology

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Google apparently has its eye on a cooler form of Google Glass – a smart contact lense with embedded sensors and cameras. Patent Bolt first reported that the the US Patent & Trademark Office published a patent application from Google that reveals a new multi-sensor contact lens computer system. Now, the same source says Google will add cameras to the contact lenses. The patent filings offer little information about how users would control remote devices from their contacts, or whether the lenses are meant to show a virtual reality.

 

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