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Introducing the superlid. It's a finely arranged layer of microfilaments that looks like a plastic film. You put this filmy microlayer on your eye and it does things for you. It should be semipermeable to allow for contact with normal ocular fluids and virtually noninvasive.
Potential applications
are almost mostly limitless.
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Ok. So, I'm thinking that the film should cover the entire eye. Surely there is a maximum thickness with no invasive feelings. Yes, it is like a contact lens, but it should cover the entire eyeball. The added surface area (beyond the visible portion) can house microelectronics, drugs, etc... This is a halfbakery idea, hopefully, and as such I want it to be as limitless in application as possible.
It will not be able to make sandwiches, [Texticle]. My apologies.
Nictitating Membrane
http://www.answers....ictitating-membrane
[BJS, Jul 06 2007]
Nano-engineered contact lens drug delivery
http://www.newscien...rticle.ns?id=dn6597
Made by tiny, tiny opticians. [jutta, Jul 06 2007]
[link]
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What things, exactly, does it do for you?
And how? |
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I suppose making me a sandwich is too much to ask. |
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Like grillz for you lidz, homey. |
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I think it's a nictating membrane...that doesn't nictate. |
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I thought it was supposed to be like a crocodile's transparent eye lids. |
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There have been experiments with slow release drugs permeated into a contact lens. I don't know what ever became of them and I can't be arsed to google it before my morning coffee. Coffee! What Am I doing here on the halfbakery pre-caffinated? Am I mad? These people will EAT ME ALIVE! Some of them are English! They have been up for hours. They have probably already had tea and crumpets, or whatever it is they eat over there. What is a crumpet anyway. I should probably delete this anno. But first I need to make coffee. |
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// What is a crumpet anyway. |
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You know, when you get something cheap that doesn't really have much play value, like one of those really small turtles, or a cockroach. |
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It's the start of an idea, but it needs some more detailed application examples to be an invention. |
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What? A crumpet? Or this idea? Both probably. |
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Never have one of my ideas sparked so much brilliance. [GC], coffeeless baking is a sin, get thee to a bunnery! Ocular drug delivery is a well established concept, whilst superlidz are not, methinks. The novelty here is how it covers the entire eyeball and provides hidden space for technologies. |
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"one of those really small turtles, or a cockroach" |
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Forty-eight hours later, it hits me. And now I have the whole evening ahead of me to suffer. |
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[normzone] As they say, "He who laughs last, thinks slowest." |
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Whereas Crumbpets are another thing entirely, but could also be cockroaches, too. Or would that be crumbpests? |
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No, crumbpests are more specialized. Like indian meal moths (Plodia interpunctella). |
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//get thee to a bunnery!// |
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