Scientists have their eyes on a new breakthrough in laser technology. It involves cow eyeballs.
Ordinary contact lenses just moved one step closer to letting you shoot lasers from your eyes.
Scientists recently developed the first pliable, ultrathin "membrane laser" that can be fixed to curved or delicate objects. After being charged with blue light, the membrane emits lasers; researchers tested the material by placing it on contact lenses that they then mounted on cow eyeballs, according to a new study.
But don't worry — nobody's building battalions of bovines that can blast beams from their eyes. While comic book heroes use laser vision to punch holes in buildings or disarm supervillains, contact lenses fitted with these laser films would likely be used for identification or security scans, the researchers reported.