Forget your iPod and the Blackberry permanently glued to your hand. Soon enough, you may not have to do anything more than put in your contacts in the morning.

Scientists have developed a contact lens that will trasmit maps and videos right before the eyes of the user, and have gone as far as to compare the technology with the Terminator's computer-aided vision. The prototype of the lenses uses LEDs connected to microscopic electrical circuits and a built-in antenna that receives signals from radio waves to beam information to the lens. And if you can imagine this, holes that are 1,000 times thinner than one human hair are etched onto the lens. Babak Parivz, the engineer who has led the project, is working on the ability to transmit detailed pictures, and even the possibility of including a zoom function.

To be honest the last part of what I wrote, as well as the rest of the article explaining the technology, sound like a different language to me (you can hit the jump to read the full article). I just can't imagine being able to walk down the street and watch CNN at the same time. If you think cell phones are a distraction to drivers now, can you imagine the ensuing chaos if people are trying to watch the road and the morning news simultaneously?

» Telegraph