Comment on Scientists invent micrometers-thin battery charged by saline solution that could power smart contact lenses

Solumbran@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• sturmblast@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  this type of technology could be revolutionary and restoring people’s eyesight as well

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  • Kungolicious@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I could see some cool military applications for this too.

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    • Zron@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Now you can see your friends dying in the next room, instead of just hearing it!

      Or if it’s only a map, now you can see how surrounded your unit is!

      This is valuable tactical data, surely it won’t cause any morale issues.

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      • Kungolicious@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        It’s true. All new inventions have a morality issue to them. And those moralities need to be weighed heavily before implementing them.

        But it can also be used to guide a secluded operative back to his troop. It can be used to detect road mines that otherwise would have exploded.

        New technology is just a tool. It’s the people choosing how to use it that makes it moral/immoral.

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  • GregoryTheGreat@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Contacts? Don’t you need to see for them to help

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    • JJROKCZ@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Some “blind” people do have data coming in, it’s just so blurry/skewed that it’s worthless. It might be possible to fix this but it would be a case by case basis and likely very expensive. Not all blindness is a world of black

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      • Lazerbeams2@ttrpg.network ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Even totally blind people can usually detect light as painful, slightly less dark darkness. That’s actually why so many wear dark sunglasses

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• Kyrgizion@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  While pouring salt into your eyes to power it!

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  • Goblin_Mode@ttrpg.network ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Saline is what you are supposed to wash your eyes out with when you get something in them in addition to being what contacts are stored in every night

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