A man fitted with bionic eyes can see light for the first time in 30 years. From the BBC:
Ron, 73, had the experimental surgery seven months ago at London’s Moorfield’s eye hospital.
He says he can now follow white lines on the road, and even sort socks, using the bionic eye, known as Argus II.
It uses a camera and video processor mounted on sunglasses to send captured images wirelessly to a tiny receiver on the outside of the eye.
Did he lose his real ones in the robot wars?
(sorry)
Nah. Stone burner in the Falklands.
i for one, welcome our new cyborg overlords.
/tho i’m a bit a bit disappointed that the eye doesn’t look more borg-like
One step closer to a steampunk mech-eye a la Garrett.
A boon to injured laundry workers everywhere…
Ah, #10! You beat me to it! Still, I figure dropping the link to the Reuters article is worth it.
Pfft, sunglasses. Let me know when I can get a visor.
G’yaah!
I just wreckermended this (other topically related) link to BB: http://vimeo.com/3481857?pg=embed&sec=
From site:
“Take a one eyed film maker, an unemployed engineer, and a vision for something that’s never been done before and you have yourself the EyeBorg Project.”
Ehh, reposting an advert as news? As the advert says, this has been done for a fair few people, and it just happens that the BBC are about to show a documentary about him.
I saw this tech on Scientific American Frontiers years ago.
What’s the resolution of the image he sees? Back then it was basically like translating the world into an on/off array of 16×16 white LEDs due to the low fidelity of the brain implant connection.
http://qwantz.com/archive/001421.html