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Post by BobG   » Thu Apr 07, 2016 1:54 pm

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Samsung has just patented smart contact lenses. They applied after David suggested them in the Safehold series. Pity fiction isn't enough to establish prior art.

https://science.slashdot.org/story/16/04/06/225237/samsung-receives-patent-for-smart-contact-lenses

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Post by Isilith   » Mon Apr 11, 2016 2:18 pm

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Re: Smart contact lenses
Post by saber964   » Mon Apr 11, 2016 4:53 pm

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Just look at Star Trek for all the nifty new gadgets that are now common place. Remember the black clipboard type thing in TOS or the PADD in TNG can you say iPad or Kindle fire. Remember the communicator can you say cellphone.
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Re: Smart contact lenses
Post by JenBurdoo2   » Mon Apr 18, 2016 1:08 am

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saber964 wrote:Just look at Star Trek for all the nifty new gadgets that are now common place. Remember the black clipboard type thing in TOS or the PADD in TNG can you say iPad or Kindle fire. Remember the communicator can you say cellphone.


My uncle ran a company that invented something akin to a medical tricorder; it's been displayed at more than one Star Trek convention.
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Re: Smart contact lenses
Post by DDHv   » Mon Apr 18, 2016 10:02 pm

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JenBurdoo2 wrote:
saber964 wrote:Just look at Star Trek for all the nifty new gadgets that are now common place. Remember the black clipboard type thing in TOS or the PADD in TNG can you say iPad or Kindle fire. Remember the communicator can you say cellphone.


My uncle ran a company that invented something akin to a medical tricorder; it's been displayed at more than one Star Trek convention.


Ran??? Are they out of business
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Re: Smart contact lenses
Post by NervousEnergy   » Wed Apr 20, 2016 4:05 pm

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I can't stand to wear contacts, but if they came out with transitions (Photochromatic) contacts I might try them again.
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Re: Smart contact lenses
Post by Keith_w   » Thu Apr 21, 2016 6:55 am

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DDHv wrote:
JenBurdoo2 wrote: quote="saber964" Just look at Star Trek for all the nifty new gadgets that are now common place. Remember the black clipboard type thing in TOS or the PADD in TNG can you say iPad or Kindle fire. Remember the communicator can you say cellphone./quote

My uncle ran a company that invented something akin to a medical tricorder; it's been displayed at more than one Star Trek convention.


Ran??? Are they out of business
:?:


Possibly the uncle is out of the business.
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Re: Smart contact lenses
Post by PaulL   » Wed May 18, 2016 11:58 pm

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BobG wrote:Samsung has just patented smart contact lenses. They applied after David suggested them in the Safehold series. Pity fiction isn't enough to establish prior art.

https://science.slashdot.org/story/16/04/06/225237/samsung-receives-patent-for-smart-contact-lenses

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Robert Heinlein's description of the water bed in "Stranger in a Strange Land" was detailed enough that the first commercial developer was unable to patent it. Heinlein never thought to, either, more's the pity.
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Re: Smart contact lenses
Post by Peter2   » Thu May 19, 2016 5:16 am

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PaulL wrote:
Robert Heinlein's description of the water bed in "Stranger in a Strange Land" was detailed enough that the first commercial developer was unable to patent it. Heinlein never thought to, either, more's the pity.


The remote handling device known as a Waldo is also named after the title character in one of Heinlein's stories in which it was described.

He also described moving roads (The Roads must Roll in the collection The Man who Sold the Moon), but I don't know whether he originated the idea.
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Re: Smart contact lenses
Post by Louis R   » Thu May 19, 2016 9:51 am

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Hard to say: Roads was published in 1940, and I _think_ that I've also seen the basic idea in a couple of stories from a few years earlier. Even so, none of them developed it to the same extent, and they certainly weren't central to the stories. The problem with SF from the '30s is that much of it isn't terribly good, even by its own standards, without being so _bad_ as to be memorable for that reason.



Peter2 wrote:
The remote handling device known as a Waldo is also named after the title character in one of Heinlein's stories in which it was described.

He also described moving roads (The Roads must Roll in the collection The Man who Sold the Moon), but I don't know whether he originated the idea.
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