“It made me feel like a very cool cyborg surgeon…” It’s in the Eyes. Surgeons complain of being distracted by having to look up from their operating field to view data on a computer screen. Now doctors at the Mayo Clinic are finding “useful and not distracting” a retinal-scanning device that “paints” images and data directly on their eyes, allowing them to review crucial information without ever having to look up from the patient. ‘The main computer sends the needed data to miniature
horizontal and vertical scanners in the control module that then
project the image through the headpiece’s optical element,
where a laser beam places it directly onto the user’s retina.

James says the data looks like it’s being projected onto a “big,
transparent TV screen that’s floating in space about an arm’s
length away from you.” ‘Wired

It reminds me of a scene from Spy Kids, which I saw with my son this weekend. The big sister is outfitting her little brother with his spy gear as they gear up to save their captured secret agent parents. She slips onto his face a set of sunglasses with a computer display on their inner surface superimposed on the visual field. He immediately says “Yecchh!” and she asks him what he sees. “You!” he replies (I guess you had to be there…)