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HOW about the CYBORGS that shall walk among us?

This is cool... uh, well sort of...]]>Dec 19th 2005 1:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/06/16/iips-retinal-implant-restores-limited-eyesight-to-the-blind/http://www.engadget.com/2005/06/16/iips-retinal-implant-restores-limited-eyesight-to-the-blind/
this is beside the point, but blindess is my biggest fear ever. especially because my sight is getting worse and worse...

but ON the point, this technology has been around for awhile and it's about time people start benefiting from it. i bet the image quality sucks though- but im sure in time it could be a practical solution to impaired vision in general. that is, for those who cant have laser eye surgery]]>Dec 19th 2005 1:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/06/16/iips-retinal-implant-restores-limited-eyesight-to-the-blind/http://www.engadget.com/2005/06/16/iips-retinal-implant-restores-limited-eyesight-to-the-blind/Dec 19th 2005 1:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/06/16/iips-retinal-implant-restores-limited-eyesight-to-the-blind/http://www.engadget.com/2005/06/16/iips-retinal-implant-restores-limited-eyesight-to-the-blind/Dec 19th 2005 1:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/06/16/iips-retinal-implant-restores-limited-eyesight-to-the-blind/http://www.engadget.com/2005/06/16/iips-retinal-implant-restores-limited-eyesight-to-the-blind/Dec 19th 2005 1:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/06/16/iips-retinal-implant-restores-limited-eyesight-to-the-blind/http://www.engadget.com/2005/06/16/iips-retinal-implant-restores-limited-eyesight-to-the-blind/Dec 19th 2005 1:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/06/16/iips-retinal-implant-restores-limited-eyesight-to-the-blind/http://www.engadget.com/2005/06/16/iips-retinal-implant-restores-limited-eyesight-to-the-blind/
In any case, there are several companies (SecondSight comes to mind, http://www.2-sight.com) working toward this end, and I don't see any clear leader emerging just yet. And yes, while people have had this concept and technology for a while, from someone working in the field . . . trust me, you do not want anyone implanting these devices into you in their current state. Besides the fact they, in fact, haven't improved terribly from the 8x8 resolution mentioned earlier (16x16 now, reproducibly), safety issues are emerging in the form that simultaneous stimulation of neighboring areas of visual cortex (I realize IIP's device stimulates the optic nerve) results in epileptic seizures.

Unless IIP's R&D is light years ahead of the published literature on this topic, it's going to be at least 10 years before we see anything like this come to market, and as much as the researchers who are tackling this problem and the patients who would benefit from it would like it to be sooner, I just don't see that happening.]]>Dec 19th 2005 1:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/06/16/iips-retinal-implant-restores-limited-eyesight-to-the-blind/http://www.engadget.com/2005/06/16/iips-retinal-implant-restores-limited-eyesight-to-the-blind/
Eat your heart out Preadator...]]>Dec 19th 2005 1:23AM