Mojo Lens: Smart Contacts With Built-In Displays

Mojo has been stealth for the past five years, busy prototyping, testing, and designing a smart contact lens with a built-in display adjusted to your eye. It's one part visual-technology gymnastics, one part medical ingenuity, and seemingly one part magic. The display is small - the size of a grain of sand - but large enough to project images onto the retina.

For those with degenerating eyesight, the lens will first serve to help with vision impairments - detecting text on signs far away or increasing contrast between shades of colors and superimposing lines on objects. The expanded possibilities for this technology are endless - from displaying translated menus and bus signs for the frequent traveler, maps and warnings to the avid backcountry skier, or temperature warnings and alerts to firefighters in dangerous situations. The first versions will have to be charged (think AirPods) nightly, and you'll need a Bluetooth connection.

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Mojo is still working on the first release - but the Company felt ready to go public at CES this year. Mojo projects that in three years, they will release the first public version of the product. Unlike Magic Leap, which in the end might have been mostly magic, Mojo Lens is confident that all the pieces of the product will come together. The journey ahead won't be easy - unlike AR/VR headsets, they'll have to undergo clinical trials, get FDA medical device certification, and build credibility and trust. Since the technology overlays on top of what the user is seeing, the data it collects could also be seen (no pun intended) as intrusive.

Can I turn Mojo off when I'm working and reading confidential work documents? Would Mojo know my favorite foods and brands when I'm grocery shopping and sell that data to marketers? There are many unanswered questions with Mojo Lens, but with $100MM+ raised so far, they are taking on the challenge head-on.

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