Scientists invent micrometers-thin battery charged by saline solution that could power smart contact lenses::Scientists from NTU Singapore have developed a flexible battery as thin as a human cornea, which stores electricity when it is immersed in saline solution, and which could one day power smart contact lenses.

  • Zron@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Now you can see your friends dying in the next room, instead of just hearing it!

    Or if it’s only a map, now you can see how surrounded your unit is!

    This is valuable tactical data, surely it won’t cause any morale issues.

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      1 year ago

      It’s true. All new inventions have a morality issue to them. And those moralities need to be weighed heavily before implementing them.

      But it can also be used to guide a secluded operative back to his troop. It can be used to detect road mines that otherwise would have exploded.

      New technology is just a tool. It’s the people choosing how to use it that makes it moral/immoral.

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        1 year ago

        Listen, all I’m saying is if I was surrounded by enemy combatants on all sides, I wouldn’t want to have to see that while getting shot at.

        Also wouldn’t want to see a fellow soldier get gunned down in a little twitch.tv window in my eye while I’m trying to clear a room.

        I’d call that a major distraction. And distractions in combat get people killed when otherwise they might have lived.

        Maybe smart contacts would have some use for NCOs, even then, a tablet or something with the same info would be just as useful and less likely to block vision. Giving it to everybody would just cause panic and confusion on a battlefield.