Don’t bother to be near your TV screen when you want to watch movie or etc! Researchers say those dark days may soon be left behind us: Contact lenses that can beam video programming straight into your eyes may be only ten years away from reality.

Ian Pearson, a futurist (he’s not an engineer), says that logically our body heat would provide all the energy needed to power-up the high-tech lenses. And that’s not all: “Digital tattoos” could also become reality to allow us to literally feel the emotions & feelings that the director wants you to feel. Per the piece: “This would allow James Bond fans to feel the thrill of outdoing the enemy or sports fans to experience the elation of jubilant players.”

It’s a long way?: 10 years seems like a quite short time frame for these developments & researchers. The technology for injecting an emotional state (is it legally & safely) via a skin patch is awfully out there, and Contact Lens Television suffers from the problem that our eye simply cannot focus on objects that too close. Some type of projection system or complex light-focusing arrangement could be a solution to the problem, but both of those technologies in a device the size of a contact lens are, again, currently too far from us? People may also feel a bit squeamish about dropping a television into their eye socket…

The closest we can get to eyeball TV today? Head-mounted displays like the Vuzix line of “video eyewear.” Throw in a super-sized Mountain Dew to simulate “the elation of jubilant players” and you’re one step closer to the future.

credit(image): University of Washington