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Just when most of the country wants to buy a giant HDTV for their living room comes the smallest TV of all, and it fits in your eye.

Well, not the TV itself. It's not as if Toshiba made a tiny metal and plastic television and you shove it in your eye, but researchers at the Future Laboratory (which will probably be a new show on CBS this fall, right after Criminal Minds) say that the future of television lies in contact lenses. That's right, television you watch via a contact lens on your eye, powered by body heat and maybe a wave of your hand to change the channels. According to the people at FL, like a real contact lens, you'll put it on in the morning and take it out before you go to bed. Unless, of course, you're like a lot of people and you watch TV in bed. If you fall asleep in these, are the dreams more awesome?

I am never going to use these. I like to have some distance between my physical body and my television. And I wonder if we'll all have to buy a different type of solution for the lenses and separate cleaners and a different case, or will the contacts be a combo television and regular contacts you wear on your eyes anyway? Nah, this is too futuristic for me. I also don't want to taste food with my ears and I don't want to listen to the radio via my teeth like that time on Gilligan's Island. We've come a long way in TV technology. I don't think it's all for the better.

Remember the warning from your mom about not sitting too close to the television?

[via TV Tattle]