The augmented-reality eyewear of Google’s Project Glass won’t be available until 2013. But two students from the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in Jerusalem are imagining the technological leap that might come next: augmented-reality contacts complete with apps.
In the short film “Sight,” Daniel Lazo and Eran May-raz depict a world in which contacts display extra information about everything on which you set your eyes, from when the leftovers in your fridge will go bad to how your date is responding to unctuous banter. Gamification permeates everything—even cutting a cucumber correctly will win you points.
The story follows a next-gen brogrammer through his daily routine. While the takeaway—that technology permeates our lives, interfering with our relationships and even dminishing our sense of humanity—isn’t wholly new, it’s nevertheless a discomfiting vision of the future.
Via Fast Co.create.
