Those Engineering Germans Bring Dreamy Sci-Fi Tech To The Real

The absolutely pimptastic propellerheads at the Fraunhofer Institute for Photonic Microsystems in Germany have created an embedded OLED eyeglass display that beams images right onto your freaking retina and will actually read your eyeball movements and allow you to manipulate menus and select stuff. Deep breath. The images are bright enough to read in daylight and appear to be coming from about a meter away. The picture from the fraunhofer site (seen below) shows this display on ordinary eyeglasses. I’m doubtful that their prototype actually looks like that but since the beamer is really tiny (19.3 by 17 millimeters) and housed in the hinge area I think using this thing for real and maintaining my resolute coolness is doable.

I predict this tech to be the next big thing. Steve Jobs is probably reading this post right now with one of these things and nodding at me sagely. Thanks Gizmodo for the news.