{"id":7317,"date":"2017-01-19T19:22:07","date_gmt":"2017-01-20T02:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zubairalexander.com\/stage\/?p=7317"},"modified":"2017-03-28T10:51:09","modified_gmt":"2017-03-28T17:51:09","slug":"uw-researchers-invent-a-contact-lens-that-communicates-with-smartphones-over-wi-fi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zubairalexander.com\/blog\/uw-researchers-invent-a-contact-lens-that-communicates-with-smartphones-over-wi-fi\/","title":{"rendered":"UW Researchers Invent a Contact Lens That Communicates with Smartphones Over Wi-Fi"},"content":{"rendered":"

The researchers at the University of Washington (UW) have come up with a contact lens that can connect to a smartphone over\u00a0Wi-Fi. This amazing invention is credited to Shyam Gollakota, an assistant professor at the UW. So how do you invent a contact lens, that has no battery, to not only power itself but also send signals over Wi-Fi? Of course, you will recycle signals from Wi-Fi or broadcast stations (radio\/TV). Duh! Why didn’t I think of that. Okay, I am being facetious. I have no idea how the professor came up with this idea. According to MIT Technology Review<\/a>:<\/p>\n

“Gollakota and his grad students built their Wi-Fi contact lens to demonstrate the potential for their technology, known as backscatter, to improve medical devices, whether cheap sensors or more complex implants. They also built a flexible skin patch that can sense temperature and respiration, a design that could be used to monitor hospital patients.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The inventor has already co-founded a company and is talking to a pharmaceutical company about adding this communication functionality to everyday disposable medical devices. Can you say “Internet of Disposable Things”?<\/p>\n

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Check out the MIT Technology Review’s article<\/a> for more details. You will also find Shyam Gallokota’s video there in which he talks about Ambient Backscatter and has some very interesting demos.<\/p>\n

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Shyam’s presentation is less than 14\u00a0minutes but it’s absolutely fascinating. You will love it.<\/p>\n

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The researchers at the University of Washington (UW) have come up with a contact lens that can connect to a smartphone over\u00a0Wi-Fi. This amazing invention is credited to Shyam Gollakota, an assistant professor at the UW. So how do you invent a contact lens, that has no battery, to not only power itself but also […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":6772,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,7,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-articles","category-news","category-wirelessmobile"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t