HAMPTON, VIRGINIA (BNO NEWS) — NASA on Friday announced that it will be presenting contact lenses that are able to display and monitor information about a person’s health information through nanotechnology.

Professor Babak Parviz, from the University of Washington presents, “What If Your Contact Lens Could Show You Images” in the Reid Conference Center in NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia on August 3. Parviz will be providing an overview of the process it took to build the contact lenses and he technology they contain.

Through advancements in nanotechnology, Parviz will explain the how contact lenses have been converted into systems that can complete several different tasks.  

Researchers at the University of Washington are working on integrating small optical, electronic and biosensing devices into contact lenses, which are designed to display information to the user and to continuously monitor the person’s health through the biochemistry of the eye surface.

Parviz’ research at the University of Washington includes nanotechnology, bionanotechnolgy and microsystems. His work was chosen by Time magazine as one of the top inventions of the year in 2008 and is on display at the London Museum of Science.

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