Technology predictions

Remember how visionaries like H. G. Wells and Da Vinci liked to make predictions based on then-fantastic flights of fancy? Well, this chain is about some of my own.

Nowadays it is pretty common to find digital cameras in cell phones. I was thinking about what could be the ultimate technological innovation in digital cameras. How about the camera is built in using ultra super duper nanotechnology into the frames of your glasses? When you look at a sight or subject - whatever you wish - and want to snap a picture, you simply click on either the rim or the sides of your glasses, an optical square is formed around the picture into the integrated lens - so you know what you are going to capture and click, the picture is taken. Better yet, it can understand simple voice commands so you can take a picture hands-free. When you come home at night, you simply plug your glasses in; your pictures are downloaded and your batteries charged!

In a few years, the technology can be extended to contact lenses as well. Of course, it remains to be seen what normal sighted people would use. For once, we 4 eyed people seem to have a distinct advantage .... :-)