http://cybernetnews.com/what-it-truly-means-to-have-googly-eyes/ Technology News Tue, 24 Nov 2009 23:01:19 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 http://cybernetnews.com/what-it-truly-means-to-have-googly-eyes/comment-page-1/#comment-5539 Anonymous Fri, 30 Jun 2006 16:08:23 +0000 http://tech.cybernetnews.com/2006/06/29/what-it-truly-means-to-have-googly-eyes/#comment-5539 While the idea is pretty cool and all, whoever created the image didn't really understand how contacts work. Your pupil can't open up wide enough to see much of anything beyond the little reticle circle in the middle of this illustration. So all of the text information shown in this picture would not be visible to the wearer. It would be possible to dilate your eyes artifically wide with drops, but you wouldn't want to go outside like that. Think about how painful bright light can be after a standard eye exam glaucoma dilation. Ouch. While the idea is pretty cool and all, whoever created the image didn’t really understand how contacts work. Your pupil can’t open up wide enough to see much of anything beyond the little reticle circle in the middle of this illustration.
So all of the text information shown in this picture would not be visible to the wearer.
It would be possible to dilate your eyes artifically wide with drops, but you wouldn’t want to go outside like that. Think about how painful bright light can be after a standard eye exam glaucoma dilation. Ouch.

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