Google files a patent for a smart lens that can be injected directly into your eyeballs.

As a kid when you are told to sit at a safe distance from the television, little did your parents know that one day you will spend hours staring at the smartphone in hand if not wearing Google Glasses. As if that wasn’t close enough, as per a patent filed by the search engine giant, Google now wants to inject the screen directly into your eyeballs.

As per documents available in its patent filing, Google’s device has been designed to replace your eye’s god given lens with an injectable solutions that congeals and attaches to your natural lens’s capsule.

Although the intra-ocular lens, in its most primitive form, can be used as a sort of a hi-tech contact lens, or an alternative to surgery for those who are vision challenged, as per Forbes, the intra-ocular device includes an electronic lens, a battery, sensors, storage and radio components meant for communicating to an external device with additional processing power.

The ocular lens’s internal battery, which will be place inside the eyeball, will draw its power from what the patent terms as an “energy harvesting antenna.”

Google’s interest in eyeballs started in 2014, when the company filed a patent for smart contact lenses, which included sensors that could monitor the wearer’s glucose levels as well as a tiny wireless chip.

Google’s partnership with healthcare giant Novartis, brought its patent application closer to reality and it helped develop this technology.

As for the competition, Sony has also jumped into the game with its own patent for a smart lens, which comes equipped with a camera, aperture control and zoom.