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Coming Soon, Super Vision

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the still-waiting-for-x-ray-specs dept.

lil_nohreaga writes "Wired is reporting that several companies are developing electronically controlled lenses to provide enhanced vision. From the article: Thanks to technologies created for astronomical telescopes and spy satellites, aberrometers can map a person's eye with extreme accuracy. Lasers bounce off the back of the eyeball, and structures in the eye scatter the resulting beam of light."

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  1. Great by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Guess it's time to throw away those X-ray glasses I got by saving a bazillion bazooka chewing gum comics.

  2. oblig. simpsons reference by kevin.fowler · · Score: 5, Funny

    The goggles, they do nothing!

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  3. I'm wracking my mind by ianscot · · Score: 3, Funny
    An important aspect of the UI design for something like this might be the inclusion of some sort of aural cue for when the enhanced vision was activated...

    But what sound did Steve Austin's eye make, again?

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  4. bah by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    It'll still never help my wife see reason...

  5. Lasers... by sconeu · · Score: 4, Funny

    Lasers bounce off the back of the eyeball,

    WARNING: Do not look directly into laser with remaining good eye!

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  6. Just move your head closer. by jos3000 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Lister: Any problems?
    Kryten: Well, just one or two. In fact I've compiled a little list if you'll indulge me. Now then, uh, my optical system doesn't appear to have a zoom function.
    Lister: No, human eyes don't have a zoom.
    Kryten: Well then, how do you bring a small object into sharp focus?
    Lister: Well, you just move your head closer to the object.
    Kryten: I see. Move your head ... closer, hmm, to the object. All right, okay. Well, what about other optical effects, like split screen, slow motion, Quantel(tm)?
    Lister: No. We don't have them.
    Kryten: You don't have them -- just the zoom? Hmm. Well, no, that's fine, that's great, no, no, that's really great, that's great. Now then, my nipples don't work.

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  7. "Lasers bounce off the back of the eyeball..." by Caspian · · Score: 5, Funny

    Hmmmm. You go first. :)

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  8. Beer Googles by a803redman · · Score: 5, Funny

    Can they make the girl look the the same in the morning as she did in the club last night? Please tell me I'm not the only one with that issue...

  9. Re:Will these glasses impair your 'normal' vision? by belloc · · Score: 4, Funny
    This sounds like a great idea, my only concern is what happens to your vision when you take off the glasses?

    You suddenly and inexplicably become unrecognizable as your alter ego.


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  10. Re:Other applications by master_p · · Score: 3, Funny

    And then Bill Gates is the first person to afford such a device, thus making the Slashdot Gates-borg icon a reality!