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UPDATE (from Phil): Tobias Buckell says that this is the first-generation version of Lamina technology, as described in his novels Crystal Rain, Ragamuffin, and Sly Mongoose.

Posted by Stephen Gordon on March 12, 2009 08:09 PM | Permalink

The most obvious improvement would be to display this personal to the user - eyeglasses now, contacts later, neural implants much later.

Eyeglasses seem obvious because you could more easily integrate a display and even sound into the frame. The power cost would be much less too.

Major upside to the glasses idea: you don't have to actually display "major loser, run away!" on some guy's shirt.

yeah- but can it make coffee?

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