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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.'"

3 of 139 comments (clear)

  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. 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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    The Rapture is NOT an exit strategy.