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Looks like some science nerds at the University of Washington’s Human Interface Technology Laboratory have hooked up a screenless heads-up display they call the virtual retinal display (VRD), which, unpleasurable as it sounds, fires laser-drawn images right into your eyeball off microscopic mirrors oscillating at incredibly high speeds. Intended for use with cellphones and other wireless devices,, the upshot is that the picture has a theoretically infinite resolution, is vibrant, bright, and doesn’t require those silly mini-screens right up in your eye that use up way more power. But yeah, you end up with a fickin’ laser beam in the retina. And the other downside? Well, duh, it only displays red (that is, until we get some miniaturized blue and green lasers).
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