{"id":186225,"date":"2014-03-30T19:15:00","date_gmt":"2014-03-31T00:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/03\/30\/i-do-not-know-whether-to-be-impressed-or-horrified\/"},"modified":"2014-03-30T19:15:00","modified_gmt":"2014-03-31T00:15:00","slug":"i-do-not-know-whether-to-be-impressed-or-horrified","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/03\/30\/i-do-not-know-whether-to-be-impressed-or-horrified\/","title":{"rendered":"I Do Not Know Whether to be Impressed or Horrified"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/fw04jbN.jpg\" rel=\"lytebox\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/fw04jbN.jpg\" style=\"cursor: pointer; float: right; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px;\" width=\"290\" \/><\/a>Scientists at the University of Michigan have <a href=\"http:\/\/defensetech.org\/2014\/03\/28\/scientists-develop-night-vision-contact-lens\/\">developed a night vision contact lens<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">The University of Michigan has developed a prototype contact lens that enhances night vision by placing a thin strip of graphene between layers of glass. The graphene \u2014 a form of carbon \u2014 reacts to photons, which makes dark images look brighter.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">The development of the lens still has quite a ways to go before soldiers can scrap those heavy goggles. Right now the graphene only absorbs 2.3 percent of the light. Those percentages have to rise before true night vision can be achieved.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s kind of neat, but wicked creepy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists at the University of Michigan have developed a night vision contact lens: The University of Michigan has developed a prototype contact lens that enhances night vision by placing a thin strip of graphene between layers of glass. The graphene \u2014 a form of carbon \u2014 reacts to photons, which makes dark images look brighter. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1025,1015],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","category-weird"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186225"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186225\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}