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Google patents injectable eyeball computer

By T.K. Randall
May 1, 2016 · Comment icon 22 comments

Is Google taking the idea of wearable technology too far ? Image Credit: CC BY-SA 3.0 Laitr Keiows
The search giant appears to be working on a device that can be injected directly in to your eyeballs.
Google Glass offered users the opportunity to see the world through an augmented reality display, but would anyone really want to have a computer embedded inside their eyes ?

This is the idea that has been described in a new Google patent which aims to provide a computer that can not only correct the wearer's vision but can also provide additional functionality such as data storage, different lens options and even an antenna for connecting to other devices.
If the idea of someone being able to connect to your eyeball over a network doesn't sound too appealing, fear not - the device is still just a patent at this point and may never actually be made.

Google filed a similar patent back in 2014 for a smart contact lens capable of displaying information in front of a person's eyes as well as monitoring and recording their glucose levels.

Whether any of these devices will ever make it to production remains to be seen.

Source: Independent | Comments (22)




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Comment icon #13 Posted by Codenwarra 8 years ago
How was Google able to get a patent for something so abstract? They haven't made an "eyeball computer", so the patent cannot be for that - and they cannot patent just the idea of injecting a nanocomputer into the eyeball, because that is a general process and so patenting it is not applicable. Did they "patent" the thesis they put forward, which isn't a patent but a copyright and only applies to the thesis itself, not the idea. If some patent clerk granted Google a patent for a general process, then the patent system in the US is screwed-up beyond fixing. Are you aware that two out of three pa... [More]
Comment icon #14 Posted by jpjoe 8 years ago
This program needs to be updated. https://www.newscientist.com/article/2084755-computer-generates-all-possible-ideas-to-beat-patent-trolls/
Comment icon #15 Posted by Hammerclaw 8 years ago
Sounds like a Fantastic Voyage. If a young Raquel Welch is on board, I volunteer for the mission.
Comment icon #16 Posted by Leonardo 8 years ago
How do you know the design is entirely hypothetical? As far as I can tell there have been no specifics released of the patent application. Outside of the patent trolling that has crept into modern society, isn't the primary purpose of a patent to lay a claim to something new? The OP article (and patent) refer to an "injectible computer" and among the claims are it "corrects vision". The former is on a scale that does not yet exist (unless they want to replace a significant percentage of the eyeball itself) or is describing a liquid or semi-liquid computer, and the latter requires the "computer... [More]
Comment icon #17 Posted by Hammerclaw 8 years ago
Google tried--and failed--once to replicate the Star Trek Next Generation Communicator.
Comment icon #18 Posted by LV-426 8 years ago
The OP article (and patent) refer to an "injectible computer" and among the claims are it "corrects vision". The former is on a scale that does not yet exist (unless they want to replace a significant percentage of the eyeball itself) or is describing a liquid or semi-liquid computer, and the latter requires the "computer" to be transparent - again, a technology that does not yet exist. I am very confident this patent describes a design using technologies that do not yet exist, and may never be shown to be viable for the purpose stated if they are invented. It is a frivolous patent . I'm no ex... [More]
Comment icon #19 Posted by Leonardo 8 years ago
I'm no expert, but... Toward computers that fit on a pen tip "A prototype implantable eye pressure monitor for glaucoma patients is believed to contain the first complete millimeter-scale computing system." And this article is over five years old. Indeed, but the "eyeball computer" the article talks of does not yet exist. If Google is working towards that, great - but demonstrate the technology exists before patenting it.
Comment icon #20 Posted by MJNYC 8 years ago
I will definitely pass. The thought makes me want to run the other way.
Comment icon #21 Posted by paperdyer 8 years ago
How was Google able to get a patent for something so abstract? They haven't made an "eyeball computer", so the patent cannot be for that - and they cannot patent just the idea of injecting a nanocomputer into the eyeball, because that is a general process and so patenting it is not applicable. Did they "patent" the thesis they put forward, which isn't a patent but a copyright and only applies to the thesis itself, not the idea. If some patent clerk granted Google a patent for a general process, then the patent system in the US is screwed-up beyond fixing. You'd be surprised what you can get a ... [More]
Comment icon #22 Posted by Zalmoxis 8 years ago
I like the idea of nano-bots repairing body damage and correcting eye-sight. They could clean fat out of the circulatory system, kill diseases on a cellular level, give you infra-red vision and a million other awesome things. I don't like the idea of computer software directly connected to my brain through my eyeballs. I like my man-made equipment as an external option, not merged into my body.


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