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- jmkiii, on 10/11/2007, -0/+21Quick, think of something corny to say.
- Fanrir, on 10/11/2007, -0/+13I SEE what you did there?
- vintagegeek, on 10/11/2007, -1/+12Eye don't get it.
- sancho320, on 10/11/2007, -0/+9Don't you mean EYE SEE what you did there?
- creep303, on 10/11/2007, -0/+7Pardon?
- disciple83, on 10/15/2007, -0/+6Wow, I can't even possibly foresee a future in which dumbasses like you can turn a greatly informative article completely void of any type of political or religious connotations and flip it into a shouting match between religious nutjobs and not-so-religious nutjobs. Just appreciate the fact that the technology exists so that you can continue to see the digg pages long into your miserable life and leave your rants for your therapy session.
- weirdralph, on 10/11/2007, -1/+6Wow --- first the Crystalens artificial lens that flexes like the real thing, and now this!
Next stop: Steve Austin supervision! (insert doot-doot-doot-doot-doot-doot sound effects here) - KnightWhoSaysNi, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5Woosh!
- andrewlinn, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4I want it. keratoconus sucks.
- jmkiii, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4Her dog would still run away.
- TomFrost, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4The technology goes deeper than that. more than 10 years ago they had a small chip with a matrix of electrodes on it that got implanted into the brain, with wires running from the chip through a helo in the skull, and connected to a glass-mounted mini camera. It showed the blind person a 16x16 block of lighted dots that corresponds to the brightness of those areas of the camera's image. After the man's recovery, he could walk up to a white wall and pick a black hat off of it.
A lot of years have passed since then! - kolop1, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4If Helen Keller lived now she would not be blind or deaf.
- Batfishy, on 10/15/2007, -0/+3Well, why didn't he use those powers to eradicate any need for this medical technology we need for our very imperfect bodies? Human ingenuity is a testament to our constant quest for knowledge our innate need to serve mankind.
- oldhick, on 10/11/2007, -1/+4How do they know? What if the blind people are just yanking their chain?
- AXNJAXN, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3There are aural implants that can bring hearing to the deaf.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cochlear_implant - Tyorant, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3Hey, this is great news for potentially 10 million people. This is the sort of news I like to read.
- MacEnvy, on 10/15/2007, -0/+3Personally, I think human ingenuity and advances in technology and our fundamental understanding of the world around us are a testament to the fact that we no longer need an angry god figurehead in our society. It worked well for ancient tribal cultures I suppose, but it's completely unnecessary for those with even a modicum of practical logic and reasoning skills.
- Hetman, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3This is good news. My sister is blind do to a cornea disease. It is two thin and the older she became the worst the disease became. She finally went blind after getting hit in the eye and it completly detached both cornea's. This happend when she was 21 so it is nice she could kind of see through out her early life. Im all for any technology that would possible allow her to see in the future.
- muhadeeb, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2I can see for aisles and aisles of shopping now that i can see
- NikZ, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2Ditto. A conical cornea is not the most enjoyable experience at all.
- Matt174e, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2There's a cure for deafness?
- gimlik, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I had/have keratoconus. I had a cornea transplant in my left eye. Thank God my right eye is still holding in there.
- Pie_Man, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I am there with ya...RGP sucks and I can't bring myself to any of the other conventional treatments.
- thebassmaster, on 10/15/2007, -0/+2What?? I hope you were being sarcastic...
- Jerky1312, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2The institute that created the mp3 algorithm is part of this project as well. From the article...
The key to the new implant is a protein-coated polymer developed by researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute, in Munich, Germany; the group is led by Joachim Storsberg, head of the university's medical-polymer research unit.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fraunhofer_Society - kaelyiesta, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2There was a study done years ago, and the moment the engineers flipped the 'switch' on the hardware, the patient went into convulsions because of the explosions of light he experience for the first time(he had been so deprived of this type of stimulus for so long that he could not cope with it). Whether or not the perception is the same as ours can be argued, but the odds that the patient would have known the precise moment that the machine started sending signal seems doubtful unless he was actually experiencing something.
Over time he became better at coping with it, and started being able to use his new sight.
I think the article was in a time magazine... - knouri, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2I'm Ron Burgundy?
- hellathatguy, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2natural selection, just like the Mariner in water world. webbed feet and gills behind the ears.
- jmkiii, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Don't you mean "Cha cha cha cha cha?"
- clothmonkey, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1, and a gambler, and I guess he always will...
- Smills, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Well that was punny!
- donjuan571, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Awesome innovation however it does not fix the problems with having to find donors for the corneal tissue needed to cover the new lens.
Still awesome though. A few more years and I see that happening. - clothmonkey, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Frack, another double-post...
Say, did anybody else automatically assume this would be a play on words for something by Apple? - MacEnvy, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Though not nearly as useful.
- foopie, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I had it, now I'vew had transplants in both eyes, this might be better, less irregularityies due to scar tissue post-op
- canman888, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1I hope this works, LASIK ***** up my eyesight pretty bad :(
- TheCasablancan, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1I dig a chick with implants. It makes me want to have aural sex with her.
- neurobox, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1I read something in Wired about this years ago... This was the first chip to use voltages that were on nearly same order of magnitude as the neurons, and therefore did not cause convulsions. I've since wondered what would happen if you then reversed the connection.. showing what the chip picks up on a screen, so that the brain can eventually learn to "draw" directly on it like a digital canvas, the same as you learn to speak by hearing your own noises, or to walk by avoiding falling over. It doesn't sound useful to most, but paraplegics would love it. Perhaps this could sooner be done for speech, or who knows what kinds of sounds, using a reversal of cochlear implant technology? It probably all depends on what part of the brain it's plugged into, but as I understand it, the stem is where it's the most flexible at "re-mapping" senses.
- ozahariev, on 10/11/2007, -0/+0but cha-cha do needs step?
- tbom, on 10/11/2007, -1/+0oh no! think of all the cute little bunnies that were inhumanely treated! /me sobs...
- jacklopter, on 10/11/2007, -2/+0this shows how man wants to near God.many things created by god found an artificial alternative. now this is a small proof for the above statement....
- oldhick, on 10/10/2007, -4/+1Did you? Then why the question mark?
- EbaumsWorldyea, on 10/10/2007, -4/+0This is further evidence that our complicated technology systems are deteriorating. We need to progress not regress in technology. For instance, last week I walked into an eye doctor and he told me what I just typed. I think if we are going to be better at once facet of the face, we need to look at all the facets together after such a one-idea principle. You won't like the look of yourself after such a procedure, ask my mom.
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