Kissmyrobot

Sometimes, even my robot dreams of escaping into the quiet mountains, where wholesome and hard-working folk who live in small villages couldn’t care less about internet connection, cell phone reception or video surveyance.

Sometimes, keeping up with what’s going on out there – all the games and gadgets, talking cars, armed robot soldiers, spy-moths, bionic contact lenses – is just too exhausting, especially when you’ve got a real job. But as a robot, he feels he has an obligation.

So, about these contact lenses. Virtual visual displays are nothing really knew, for a robot. It could, however, be a bit strange for us. Imagine walking through a dying forest, with overlays of what it looked like in the spring. Imagine an investigator using visual aids to reconstruct a crime scene. Imagine a visually impaired person zooming down the highway in their new corvette.

It may soon be possible. They’ve managed to construct a lens with tiny microscopic electric circuits and solar receptors that will be powered by solar cells and radio frequencies and use light-emitting diodes to illuminate the display. Wireless communication may also become possible. I’m not sure if the bionic woman would have been surprised, but if my robot is wondering, than I guess I need to keep my eyes on this. With my glasses on, that is.