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    The Next Little Thing: Technology breakthroughs

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    You might soon have a TV in your eye. Experts say that within the next ten years, it is likely that viewers will be able to pop a contact lens into their eye and watch TV via the lens, according to the Daily Mail. The Daily Mail also reported: The contact lens would be powered by body heat. You would change channels by voice commands or waving your hand, according to the report on home entertainment compiled by the Future Laboratory consultancy. Your eyes would look a bit altered, but no one could tell what TV show you were watching. 'We could even get to the point where we'll be able to immerse ourselves in a football game, making it feel like you're running alongside your favorite player or berating the ref,' the report states. Miriam Rayman, of the Future Laboratory consultancy, said that most of this technology already exists. 'The technology is getting smaller and smaller and people are trying to work out how to make it more immersible. They are trying to bring it closer and closer to the eye,' Rayman told the Daily Mail. We could even soon feel the emotions of the characters on shows, so if there is a big chase scene in a movie, a device could transmit impulses to you so that you literally feel the excitement of the scene. 'The future of home entertainment will go well beyond wafer-thin screens - we will be networked to our TVs emotionally and we will enjoy interacting with our home entertainment systems,' Bob Dyer, the commercial director of the electrical retailer Comet, told the Daily Mail. 'The world, in all its multi-sensory forms, will literally come to us, just the way we want it. It will give staying in and slouching on the sofa a whole new meaning,' he said.

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