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"Our hope is to create images that effectively float in front of the user perhaps 50 cm to 1 m away," News Scientist quoted Parviz as saying.
The expert further said that future versions would be able to gather power from a user's cell phone without obscuring the wearer's view.
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The team is due to present their prototype at the Biomedical Circuits and Systems (BioCas 2009) conference at Beijing.
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