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Re: VIRTUAL RETINAL DISPLAY

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From: col... Scott Coleman
Date: Tue, 20 Jun 1995 00:00
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In <3rok7a$5...@warp.cris.com> Skyv...@cris.com (Steven Brown) writes:

>Nikolas Adair (nad...@students.wisc.edu) wrote:

>: The Human Interface Technology Laboratory (HITL) of the Washington 
>: Technology Center at the
>: University of Washington is developing a new display device in which a 
>: coherent light source is used
>: to scan an image directly on the retina of the viewer's eye. 

>I don't know. Sounds like one of those things that could screw up your 
>head or something. 

Just don't use it during a thunderstorm - those power-surge-induced bright
flashes will melt your rods and cones. ;-)

-- 
Scott Coleman, President ASRE (American Society of Reverse Engineers)
as...@uiuc.edu
"An Irishman is never drunk as long as he can hold onto one blade of grass and
not fall off the face of the earth."
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From: col...@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu (Scott Coleman)
Subject: Re: VIRTUAL RETINAL DISPLAY
Date: 1995/06/20
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