Hot Topics: Contact Lenses with Computer Screens, Are We Low-tech Cyborgs and A Defiant Palestine
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This column is designed to offer a platform to discuss national and global stories on a local level. Share your opinion in the comment section. ----- Cross my heart, hope to die, stick a ... computer in my eye? Apparently a contact lens with a computer screen could be available in as little as five years. They could potentially show things such as text messages and road maps, according to Jelle De Smet, the chief researcher on the project. Other advances have been made in the contact lens field. For example, scientists have discovered a way to repair the human cornea by using stem cells in a contact lens implant. According to RT.com, "stem cells have the ability to renew themselves through mitotic cell division and differentiation into a …
