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Artificial Vision for the Blind
castanaveras writes "Canadian doctors implanted an artificial eye into a blind man - it performs well enough for him to be able to drive (admittedly in an empty parking lot)." We've done lots of previous stories about bionic eyes.
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Artificial Intelligence for the Stupid
Now that they can replace your glass eye with one that actually lets you see, I guess my novelty glass eyes won't do so well... It would have been nice to see them go into production, the magic 8 ball eye, the screen saver eye, and the flashing 12:00 eye... I wonder how long it will be before someone works out how to advirtise directly to your brain by hacking your eyes... gives whole new meaning to feed my eyes doesn't it.
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Hrm... they omitted that they eye sends back photographs, streaming video, and other data to Echelon monitoring facilities.
They also failed to mention the artificial eye's laser beam and the mass destruction capabilities.
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In order to go to sleep, does the man needs to turn his artificial eye "off"?
These artificial eyes have lots of potential users that are currently employed as baseball umpires...
for the deaf. Now all we need is artificial intelligence for the stupid!
I knew an eminent blind person and researcher at a university who was often called upon to comment on or even to test artificial vision equipment being developed at the university. His usual response was that nothing beats a good guide dog. This demoralised some folks at the university who were trying to develop and get funding for a guide robot for blind people. That latter project made the headlines when it was the subject of a hilarious cartoon in a BMVA Newsletter a few years ago entitled "Guide Dogs for Blind Robots" (no online copy found).
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Gee, I want some with Terahertz imaging ability... see thru walls, clothes, etc.:)
I just hope the system doesn't run Windows :)
Patient: "I can see, I can really see"
Doctor: "What can you see?"
Patient: "Well it's blue, am I looking at the sky?"
Doctor: "Oh hold on, I need to reboot and install the latest drivers.."
:)
Oh this is not really a big deal. Star Trek showed us years ago that you could make a blinde man see just by putting a hair-clip over the front of his face.
"Everything you know is wrong. (And stupid.)"
Moderation Totals: Wrong=2, Stupid=3, Total=5.
Well, I haven't checked today, but that could be 6 million Canadian dollars.
I saw a documentary of a case study of this once. Apparently this kid lost his sight and hearing at a young age.
He later became pinball champion of the world, but upon regaining his sight and hearing, he led a cult until they revolted against him, and he lost everything.
I forget what the name of the documentary was.
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AOL will probably market "AOL Eyes'. At only 1.5x the cost, you get "special product offers" exclusively available to AOL Eyes users. Each eye will have a seperate, full screen window inside of an mdi interface with no tasklist. It will crash whenever you turn your head too fast, and it will take your brain down with it.
So easy to see, no wonder its #1 among the morons of the world.
You can't judge a book by the way it wears its hair.
Mother: "Junior, what were you doing at your girlfriend's house last night??"
(18-year old) Junior: "Um... nothing mom!!! *turns red, obviously hiding something*"
Mother: "Junior, plug in your eye now, let me see!!"
--pi
Actually, AMD stock rose $1.50 on the news that they would provide cheap, onboard processors for visual implants.
Patients' complaints about the heat will be drowned out by the scream of cooling fans.
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Regular porn is probably too small, so
I imagine the Canadian gentleman can now print out ASCII porn for his viewing pleasure.
Moneyed corporations, non-working 'poor' and criminal prisoners are turning productive citizens into tax-slaves.
if the batteries died in it, you would be third eye blind ;)
Just imagine, if he goes to the theater, he'll be violating the DMCA.
"Derp de derp."
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