Bionic vision

Comprox

<div class="IPBDescription">What i may need soon...</div><a href="http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/10.09/vision.html?pg=1&topic=&topic_set=" target="_blank">When nerds help the handicapped</a>

(The way my vision is going, I may need something like this by the time I am 25 <!--emo&:(--><img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/sad.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':('><!--endemo--> )

Sage

oOOoOOOO, Thats cool  <!--emo&:D--><img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':D'><!--endemo-->

Gazaar

I'll need those by the time I'm 30 I'd guess.  My vision gets subtly worse every year.

SmokeMasta

hmmm it's very old tech

coil

Wow... I want night-vision implants!!!

Slycaster

That is awesome! (i feel your pain comprox... i do...)

Gencide

That was a very interesting article.

Insane

That's really impressive.  I can't beleive they actually did it  <!--emo&:)--><img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':)'><!--endemo-->

Sono

Wow, this is amazing.
It's a breakthrough on the way to the day mankind can heal every illness.

God is becoming reachable.

SmokeMasta

actualy it's not a breaktrough at all
the technology existed long before this but in this article it gives several tech upgrades...like frames per second and the resolotion

Zcaliber

Then of course there's that miniature microchip that can let blind people see...

Sucker is built atom by atom, although the resolution is atrociously low, it does let people with certain types of blindness to recognize faces and other things...

Although it's somewhat blocky it does work. So i'm sure in the future they can make it more effective.

BLACK_Monkey

LOL coil! Yeah, but in the future people don't become blind just because of bad vision. That is what glasses and contacts are for. It always doesn't mean that you are gonna be blind some day.. <!--emo&:)--><img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':)'><!--endemo-->

RhoadsToNowhere

I guess Science and Industry was right after all.  <!--emo&:)--><img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':)'><!--endemo-->

Zcaliber

Heh, added with that Micro-chip in peoples arm.

You can now see how healthy people are, their names, and even what team they're on!

*Im commercial guy voice* AAaaaAAmazing! (Only 19.95 + S&H)

GobyWan

I bet that guy can own with the tau cannon now.

"OMG h3 r bl1nd an he sh0ot me! h4x!"

Hehehe..

Tomodachi

Well, sure it can help the blinded see but would you want to walk around with wires sticking out of your skull.

alius42

<!--QuoteBegin--Tomodachi+Aug. 16 2002,03:07--></span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td><b>Quote</b> (Tomodachi @ Aug. 16 2002,03:07)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE"><!--QuoteEBegin-->Well, sure it can help the blinded see but would you want to walk around with wires sticking out of your skull.<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span id='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
well if i was blind and i could see, i really don't think i would care about the wires.

coil

Are you kidding?  Talk about your conversation topic!

"Why yes, I *am* a cyborg."

Tomodachi

Well I dunno I think it might dangerous to have wires plugged directly into your brain. You could probably have part of your brain pulled out or something when you fall.

Necrotic

"Forget the camera even; there's no reason you couldn't jack directly into the Net. In the future, the disabled may prove more abled; we may all want their prostheses."

Oh yes, dues ex machina
and does anyone watch andromeda?
I'd be interested in bionic implants

Gwahir

well, there is the problem of looking at a computer or tv screen with this, there could be a dissonance between the refresh rates, very bad.  You know how on news channels you'll see a clip including a look at some monitors that have lines travelling down them all the time, that's what I'm talking about, only it will happen all the time, just when looking around unless the refresh rate is either high enough or not dissonant with the particular rate you are looking at.

That aside, I know a guy who has one eye, he might like something like this, though he would probably wait, he's doing very well with the one he has left.