VisionCare Implantable Miniature Telescope
We tend to get excited when a technology comes along, like all those robotic exoskeletons that are popping up these days, that promises us super-human abilities in the not-so-distant future. Well Israel-based VisionCare is not as concerned with giving super-vision to the average Joe as they are with helping restore eyesight in age-related macular degeneration (AMD) patients, but we can see the tech behind their Implantable Miniature Telescope being used for all sorts of comic book-like fun. The VisionCare device, which just finished its Phase II/III clinical trials, consists of two wide-angle glass microlenses that refocus incoming images away from the damaged macula and over to healthier parts of the eye. The IMT is surgically implanted into one cornea of an AMD sufferer in an outpatient procedure, and provides a 2.2x or 3x magnification to the affected eye, while the other eye is left to monitor peripheral vision. Once these mini 'scopes are approved for general use, we'd like to hack one for better magnification and resolving power, then use our eagle-eye to wow the rest of our cheat-prone foursome in USGA tournaments that still disallow electronic rangefinders.
[Via medGadget]
