While flipping through the channel today I saw a program that examined the merging of the brains memory and live experience with a computer. The goal of the technology was to add to the brains recall by inserting a contact lens like device in the eye that is able to relay radio waves to a centrally located computer that stores our recall. The contact lens would be able to use facial recognition technology to transmit data to a computer that is then processed and sent back to the contact lens with relevant data about the individual with whom you have had some previous contact before. This data will be displayed in a viewing window peripheral to the natural line of sight of the individual. This technology reduces the chances of getting a less than warm response when staring at someone trying to remember where you met them before. The technology is in its infancy so the lens is only able to show 1 pixel of data. As the technology is improved upon the user will have an image that is made up of thousands of pixels.
There are obvious practical uses of the technology and it would definitely enhance life as we know it. Based on what I saw in the report the ability to produce a sharper clearer picture of the data viewing window is about ten years away. The technology can be used in the future as a portable media player devise, MP3 players would go the way of vinyl.
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