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JERUSALEM - An Israeli optics company says it has developed a miniature video projector that turns eyeglasses into a personal video screen.
The technology, which until now has been seen only in movies such as Mission: Impossible, projects a video image unnoticeable to anyone but the bespectacled individual.
"Imagine you're sitting in a meeting and you want to read an email ... you just click a button on the phone in your pocket and you start reading away while you're looking attentively at the person who's giving the presentation," Ari Grobman, business development manager at Lumus said.
Lumus had been approached by manufacturers of cell phones and portable media players and expected the product to be on the market next year, Grobman told Reuters.
Motorola is listed as an investor in the venture-capital-funded company.
The product could be used as corrective eyeglasses, but it also created an image matching that of a 177cm television screen viewed from 3m away, Grobman said.
Apart from watching movies and checking emails, Grobman said the technology would eventually provide drivers with virtual navigation through GPS.
- REUTERS
