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Nanobatteries Power Artificial Eyes

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the looking-into-the-future dept.

Roland Piquepaille writes "A new U.S. research center, the National Center for Design of Biomimetic Nanoconductors, has been opened to promote new ideas in the field of nanomedicine. For example, a team of researchers at Sandia National Laboratories (SNL) is developing a nano-size battery to be implanted in the eye to power artificial retina. But this center will also design and build 'nanomedical devices based on natural and synthetic ion transporters -- proteins that control ion motion across the membranes of every living cell.'"

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  1. You go blind by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    So... uh, back to where you were.

  2. I want the silver eyes... by SEWilco · · Score: 4, Funny

    ... with Picture-in-Picture.

  3. Just like T3 by ssk77077 · · Score: 2, Funny

    I'll take a set of the glowing blue LED eyes

  4. Re:Probably Not by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Good, then you have twenty years to join the middle class, I feel that is more than enough of a warning.

  5. Re:What if the battery leaks? by Firehed · · Score: 2, Funny

    Or what if you install it backwards? Surely it'll be tricky to differentiate between + and - if it's on the nano scale... Would you see in Ctrl+i?

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  6. Yes. by ichigo+2.0 · · Score: 2, Funny
    Sometimes reading the article is a good idea. FTA:

    The artificial retina and accompanying nanobattery will be used to correct certain types of macular degeneration.



    Personally, I'm waiting for models with zoom and nightvision before I trade in my weak organic meatballs.
  7. Bato not impressed. by Bushido+Hacks · · Score: 3, Funny

    Tachikoma: "Mr. Bato! Where are you going?"
    Bato: "I can't see a damn thing! All I see is this blue screen with some stupid message asking me to press enter."
    Kusanagi: "Is that why you are in the ladies rest room?"
    Aramaki: "What the hell are you all stand around and blathering about?!"
    Kusanagi: "It's Bato. He's got the blue screen of death again."
    Togusa: "Have you pressed CTRL-ALT-DEL?"
    Saito: "What are you? Some kind of noobie? Run a diagonstic!"
    Aramaki: "Go to the Start Menu!"
    Tachikoma: "Call technical support!"
    The other Tachikomas (pass through the hall): "What's going on?"
    Tachikoma: "It's Mr. Bato! He can't see!"
    Bato (bumps head against the wall accidently, then is embarrassed by the events that just occured): "If I don't show up for work tomarrow, don't call to wake me up."

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  8. Re:Cue the howling by narcc · · Score: 2, Funny
    What's more interesting than Natalie Portman naked and petrified after all?


    Why Natalie Portman, naked and petrified, covered in Hot Grits of course!

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