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High-Tech Glasses Help Improve Memory

Posted by timothy on from the unless-you-forget-where-they-are dept.

unassimilatible writes "MIT will reportedly announce new high-tech glasses which they claim will improve memory by up to 50%. The spectacles are implanted with a CPU that sends messages in the form of light to a mini TV screen on the glasses. The messages - like someone's name, or a word like keys or medicine - flash before your eyes at 180th of a second. Pardon me, but I'll wait for the reviews, since I am still smarting from buying those X-ray glasses in the back of magazines." These "memory glasses" were also discussed at the recent International Symposium on Wearable Computers.

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  1. Hmmmm.... by Durin_Deathless · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Are the words random, tailored to the user, or to the topic at hand? If the last, do I need special glasses for reading the newspaper and for reading a book?

    Also, wouldn't 1/80th of a second make more sense?

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  2. Reminders by r_glen · · Score: 1, Redundant

    "...like someone's name, or a word like keys or medicine"

    But what if grandpa forgets to put on his glasses?

  3. Can't remember where you put them by bstadil · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Sorry, but someone had to say this

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  4. Re:Made by MicroOptical by QuantumG · · Score: 0, Redundant

    But it's not like you can go to their website and buy one. Maybe that would be a good first step in making their products commercially viable: offer their potential customers a way to order them.

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