02-10-2013, 09:26 AM | #1 | |
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And the blind can see
But will the dead talk?
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02-10-2013, 09:54 AM | #2 |
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That's pretty sweet.
I wonder how long it'll take someone to hack into it to make advertisements appear. |
02-10-2013, 10:07 AM | #3 |
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Steve Jobs is doing it right now from his secret base within Mariana's Trench. In the process he is stealing the schematics for Apple. Next month Apple will release the iEye. It can't hold a charge and every time you want to adjust your vision you have to accept a licensing agreement.
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02-10-2013, 10:55 AM | #4 |
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The reason it varies from participant to participant is because of how the brain and the eye interact.
This is basically a replacement eye. If the participant was blind from birth, he or she will not see anything because the optic nerve and the associated cortical region will not be developed enough to carry or recognize optical information. Psych 101. However, this would be a wonderful advancement for those who are partially blind, or who lost their eyesight due to some kind of disease (Why did Helen Keller's dog run away? You would, too, if your name was "aaauuuuugh"). More power to science! ...Still can't do it with mud, though. Too bad, this could have lent validation to the Jesus as a Time Traveler conspiracy theory :P
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02-10-2013, 11:17 AM | #5 |
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So cyberization has begun.
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02-10-2013, 01:46 PM | #6 |
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Dunno about you guys, but I can't wait until we move from this silly "help people who need help" thing to "I want to shoot lasers out of my new cybernetic eyes, take my money."
That said, this is amazing. Really expensive though, alas. |
02-10-2013, 03:49 PM | #7 |
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I'd pay anything to regain use of one of my senses.
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02-10-2013, 04:00 PM | #8 |
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If you had the money to pay, yeah.
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02-10-2013, 04:01 PM | #9 |
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The glass half empty: The article mentions that the technology specifically benefits those with retinitis pigmentosum and not those with macular degeneration, optic neuritis, or (as was brought up earlier) cortical lesions and other CNS causes for blindness. It also mentions the use of only 60 electrodes. Not exactly sure how those electrodes are being put to use (i.e. how their effects stack together) but when you consider that the human eye consists of millions of cones, over a hundred million rods, over a million ganglion cells, and so on, ... I mean, in the fovea centralis, the number of photoreceptors to which each individual ganglion cell connects can be as few as you have fingers to count with. So it's doubtful that this technology would be of much use to people with macular degeneration, loss of the eyeball from physical trauma, and so on. It sounds like it has a very niche market for right now.
The glass half full: this is an important step forward towards the bionic eye. People were skeptical about cochlear implants when they first showed up too, but those ended up proving far more powerful and satisfactory for patients than we thought they would, and look at where we are today with the technology. Hopefully the same will be true soon for eyes.
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02-10-2013, 05:24 PM | #10 | |
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02-10-2013, 05:43 PM | #11 | |
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instead of like this: I'd just as soon stay blind. A, it would be too infuriating / too frustrating to see the world so much more poorly than I once did. It would not be "better than nothing" as people patronized me that it would be. "At least you can see your grandchildren now, you ungrateful, horrible old man! " someone on their high and mighty steed might condescendingly say to me, but I would retort "No I can't! You call this seeing my grandkids? ALL I SEE IS FUZZY CHROMOSOMES!" B, I would opt to sit this technology out for the time being and wait for a superior technology to come along. With a lot of these operations, once you're in, that's it: you're done for life. You can't undo the operation to try out something else. You can't "upgrade" ten years down the road when something better comes along. Surgery is still crude enough and "now or never" enough that you're still locked in with a lot of these medical enhancements we see in recent times. I would just as soon wait patiently and be a blind old man for 5 more years (even risking dying before my chance at the new tech) if I thought it meant I had a shot at a 99% "just like the real thing" eye rather than jumping the gun on this "lol 60 electrodes " tech instead and now being someone who sees the world in black and white fuzz for life. That is my feeling here, as a 28 year old man with sight in both eyes. Maybe I would feel very differently if I were to go blind. Maybe I would say "28 year old Talon was ignorant and didn't know what he was talking about. I do. I am blind, and I can tell you that Doppleganger was right: I'd do anything to have my sight back, and I'd take any improvement, however meager." But ... that's just not how I feel right now. Sorry. This is a great stepping stone towards a better bionic eye, but I think it's naive to say that the glass is 100% full on this news story.
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02-18-2013, 03:23 AM | #12 |
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02-18-2013, 07:59 AM | #14 |
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>"widely available"
>will cost over $100,000 in US Right... still a wonderful achievement beyond all belief but I think the price is too high and the market too niche to really be widely useful right now.
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