How does it feel to hold and tilt a small screen to find the exact medical image you need? Researchers at Tokyo University have the answer. They have developed a new technique for viewing slices from a three dimensional model of medical images called the Volume Slicing Display (VSD). The device uses...

H+ carries an astonishing story based on research from the University of Washington’s Babak Parviz. According Parviz, in the future, contact lenses will do much more than improve our vision. They will offer an augmented reality view of the world, provide magnifying and close up views previously...

A future looking post from the IEEE Spectrum web site explores whether Augmented Reality and a new generation of electronically enabled contect lenses could transform eye sight for both the visually impaired and normally sighted. If that all sounds too far fetched, the author of the article is Babak...