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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.
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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In order to go to sleep, does the man needs to turn his artificial eye "off"?
When will we get
Artificial Intelligence for the Stupid
Or better yet, when will we get artificial etiquette for trolls.
-Sean
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.
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.
I've had enough abrasive sigs. Kittens are cute and fuzzy.
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.
It all goes downhill from first post
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."