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| Eyephone(s) | ||
| A projection system using small goggles to project an image directly on your eye. |
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?
| Kathy Torrance began by offering Laney a chance to net-surf, Slitscan style...
She handed Laney an industrial-strength pair of rubberized Thomson eyephones. "Do him." "Do?" "Him. Go for those nodal points you've been telling me about. The headshot's a gateway to everything we've got on him. Whole gigs of sheer boredom. Data like a sea of tapioca, Laney. An endless vanilla plane..." |
| From Idoru,
by William Gibson. Published by Putnam in 1996 Additional resources -
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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.
(Thanks to RvR and Steven J. Owens for help on this one.)
She never figured him for a bookworm. Still, there he is again, plugged into the library. Stray light from the eyephones leaks across his cheeks...
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