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Over in Belgium, scientists have finally taken a crucial... building screens into contact lenses.
Jelle De Smet and a team of researchers at Ghent Univers ...
To do it, they had to come up with new kinds of "conduct ...

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Over in Belgium, scientists have finally taken a crucial step toward building screens into contact lenses.

Jelle De Smet and a team of researchers at Ghent University built an LCD screen in a curved contact lens.

To do it, they had to come up with new kinds of "conductive polymers" – and mold them into "a very thin, spherically-curved substrate [surface] with active layers."

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Over in Belgium, scientists have finally taken a crucial step toward building screens into contact lenses.<p></p> <p><span>Jelle De Smet and a team of researchers at Ghent University built an <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/blackboard/lcd" class="hidden_link">LCD</a> screen in a curved contact lens.</span></p> <p>To do it, they had to come up with<span> </span><span>new kinds of "conductive polymers" &#x2013; and mold them into "<span>a very thin, spherically-curved substrate [surface] with active layers."</span></span></p>