{"id":1892,"date":"2009-02-13T07:28:24","date_gmt":"2009-02-13T11:28:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=1892"},"modified":"2009-02-12T10:30:10","modified_gmt":"2009-02-12T14:30:10","slug":"theres-a-she-blinded-me-with-science-joke-in-here-somewhere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=1892","title":{"rendered":"There&#8217;s a &#8220;She Blinded Me with Science&#8221; Joke in Here Somewhere"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/contact.jpg\" alt=\"Contact Lens\" title=\"Contact Lens\" width=\"126\" height=\"119\" class=\"contentimg\" \/>Ian Pearson, a &#8220;futurologist&#8221; (which is a job title I want; sounds nicely nebulous) who advises companies on cutting-edge technology, has predicted that contact lenses with embedded TVs will be available within 10 years.<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, he asserts that &#8220;digital tattoos&#8221; would pick up on the emotions portrayed by the actors and create impulses making us feel the same emotions.  This would, he says, &#8220;allow James Bond fans to feel the thrill of outdoing the enemy or sports fans to experience the elation of jubilant players.&#8221;  The technology would all be powered by body heat.<\/p>\n<p>And if my grandmother had three speeds she&#8217;d be a vibrator.<\/p>\n<p>I was going to make fun of this, but I think it&#8217;s almost self-parodying.  I&#8217;m sort of impressed that the Daily Mail article just&#8230;takes it all at face value.<\/p>\n<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sciencetech\/article-1139262\/Keep-eye-TV--TV-contact-lens.html\">Link<\/A>  <I>(via <A HREF=\"http:\/\/tech.yahoo.com\/blogs\">Yahoo Tech<\/A>)<\/I><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ian Pearson, a &#8220;futurologist&#8221; (which is a job title I want; sounds nicely nebulous) who advises companies on cutting-edge technology, has predicted that contact lenses with embedded TVs will be available within 10 years. Furthermore, he asserts that &#8220;digital tattoos&#8221; would pick up on the emotions portrayed by the actors and create impulses making us [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1892"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1892"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1892\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1899,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1892\/revisions\/1899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}