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Implant Translates Written Words To Braille, Right On the Retina

An anonymous reader writes "For the first time, blind people could read street signs with a device that translates letters into Braille and beams the results directly onto a person's eye." According to the article, "In a trial conducted on a single patient who already used the [predecessor] device, the person was able to correctly read Braille letters up to 89 percent of the time, and most of the inaccuracy appeared when the participant misread a single letter. The user was able to read one word a second."

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  1. Missing by girlintraining · · Score: 4, Funny

    "For the first time, blind people could read street signs with a device that translates letters into Braille and beams the results directly onto a person's eye."

    There's something missing here. I can't... quite... put my finger on it. I'm sure I'll get it in a minute.

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    1. Re:Missing by Swave+An+deBwoner · · Score: 3, Funny

      You missed .. reading the article. No worries, just click on the link and you'll be fine.

  2. One word per second by PPH · · Score: 4, Funny

    Beware ..... of ...... the ......vicious .......dog.......

    Auggghhh!

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  3. Suck it, Apple by Stormwatch · · Score: 5, Funny

    Now THIS is a retina display!

  4. An army of one by FatLittleMonkey · · Score: 3, Funny

    Do you make more than one prototype once your first prototype shows the basic method works? Why would you do that?

    Pickle's worried about the placebo effect.

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  5. Re:Another Great Slashdot Summary by neoshroom · · Score: 4, Funny

    PREVIOUS CURRENT CAN? I say, previous current cannot nor could it ever.

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  6. Re:a trial of one by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    i think we need a double blind study before we can be certain.