Researchers create contact lenses capable of emitting lasers

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Researchers create contact lenses capable of emitting lasers
Those responsible were inspired by a comment from a journalist who invoked comic book heroes.
Researchers create contact lenses capable of emitting lasers

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Researchers at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland say they have created contact lenses capable of emitting lasers. The researchers in question created ultra-thin lenses from a  conductive organic polymer that emitted a green laser when applied to  the eyes of a cow.

In  a conversation with Digital Trends, one of the makers of the project,  Malte Gather, pointed out that the team started the project when a  journalist joked that a way of launching lasers would be created, just  as it is with comic book heroes like X Cyclops -Men. At the time the team was investigating whether biological systems were capable of generating lasers.

"In  practice, this [capability] would be a convenient way of access control  and authentication - one would have a device that would do a biometric  analysis of the iris and another in a parelle that would be able to read  wavelengths of light emitted by a laser used by the same person, "explained Galther. 

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Yup possible