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"If I can make you see the world the way I see it, then you will automatically think the way I think."
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![]() Yes, we all like big screen TVs and those beautiful wide screen LCD monitors. However, they do take up a lot of space. What if you could just draw the picture on your retina, and fool yourself into thinking you're seeing a big screen?
There is also a mention of this item in Peter Watts' Starfish:
The eyephone lasers etch text and formulae across [one's] retinas.
The word "eyephone" was probably created (at least popularized) by Jaron Lanier's company, VPL Research, Inc., which sold what was arguably the first commercial and general purpose head-mounted displays under that name by 1989.
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