Apps allow you to link your smartphone to anything from your shoes, to your jewelry, to
your doorbell — and soon, you may be able to add your contact lenses to that list.
Engineers at the University of Washington have developed an innovative way of communicating that would allow medical aids such as contact lenses and brain implants to send signals to smartphones.
The new tech, called "interscatter communication," works by converting Bluetooth signals into Wi-Fi signals, the engineers wrote in a paper that will be presented Aug. 22 at the Association for Computing Machinery's Special Interest Group on Data Communication conference in Brazil. [Bionic Humans: Top 10 Technologies] https://www.livescience.com/55816-smart-contact-lenses-talk-to-your-phone.html
