Augmented Contact Lenses Hit Significant Milestone

Augmented reality means quite literally to add something into reality that we don't presently have, and in this context it means adding information.

What was previously the exclusive realm of science fiction has recently made a leap in both concept and prototyping, bringing the heads-up-display from video games to within arm's reach.

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A Drug That Could Give You Perfect Visual Memory

Imagine if you could look at something once and remember it forever. You would never have to ask for directions again. Now a group of scientists has isolated a protein that mega-boosts your ability to remember what you see.
A group of Spanish researchers reported today in Science that they may have stumbled upon a substance that could become the ultimate memory-enhancer. The group was studying a poorly-understood region of the visual cortex. They found that if they boosted production of a protein called RGS-14 (pictured) in that area of the visual cortex in mice, it dramatically affected the animals' ability to remember objects they had seen.
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