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Another fascinating research story from University of Washington. I saw this article on Washington Post’s Web site that I had to share.

“Move over, Bionic Man. Engineers at the University of Washington in Seattle have come up with a nanotech device that Steve Austin would have loved: a contact lens that displays images, letting a person surf the Web, read e-mail, scan a spreadsheet or play a video game, all without using a computer screen.

The lens has not undergone human trials, but it has been tested on rabbits for up to 20 minutes without ill effects.”

Click here for this interesting story posted by Washington Post.

The research activities at the University of Washington (UW) in Seattle are often fascinating. I just read the other day that the UW, along with researchers from Harvard and UMass Amherst showed how it is possible for someone to extract patients’ private medical infromation from implantable devices. Not only that, but it is also possible to reprogram the medical settings without patients’ approval or knowledge.

The research has been reported widely in the medical community and in the press. According to the uwnews. org “In computer laboratory bench tests, the research team used an inexpensive software radio to intercept and capture signals sent from the implantable device. They were able to obtain detailed information about a hypothetical patient, including name, diagnosis, date of birth and medical ID number. Researchers could determine the make and model of the device and access real-time electrocardiogram results as well as data on the hypothetical patient’s heart rate and cardiac activity.”

You can read the entire news story here.