Live from CES, another innovative product that may or may not be a little invasive. Eyewear startup Innovega unveiled its prototype offering, a combination of headset and contact lenses they call iOptik.

The set comes in two parts, the contacts and the glasses working in tandem. The contacts allow increased focusing ability, basically allowing the user to access an area of ocular perception far outside the normal human ability. The lens lets you focus on the minutia of your fingertips held right up to your eye, when normal vision couldn’t focus on something so small. Add to this the glasses, which display data, and you have Google Glass-Super eyes.

The two-tier solution is what makes the iOptik unique. Google Glass and other products like it look more like goggles or headsets than actual glasses. By separating the components, the glasses look more like actual glasses and are purported to be much more unobtrusive. As well, for the myopic among us, the contacts can be fitted with a prescription.

What Sparks Our Fire: In our continuing coverage of CES and “The Internet of Things”, iOptik seems like the next logical step in wearable technologies.

Do you think this product or something like it will eventually replace smartphones?