Sony wants a patent for a smart contact lens, as does Samsung

Posted on by Jules Wang

Well, it seems like we’ve found our new main vertical to cover here at Pocketnow and that’s the smart contact lens. Seriously, first Samsung shows up at Korea’s patent office with something people have been calling a “Gear Blink,” then Sony’s all up in the USPTO with a “contact lens and storage medium.”Yep, putting on a contact lens to record pictures and video and store it in an extremely tiny disk of sorts. And yes, you blink to snap. And ...

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Patent and trademark pushes show off an eye-catching Samsung Gear Blink

Posted on by Jules Wang

First-person-view cameras, sometimes called “action cameras,” have been pretty popular in the marketplace. But while these cameras are fairly small, when attached to a human, they’re not exactly low-profile. Google Glass shrunk down the camera and put it in an infamous pair of glasses.But Samsung may be onto something with a camera in a contact lens.SamMobile is reporting that the ...

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