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Sorry, i just had to say that.
But if find this really interresting, first place because maybe the blind can see thank to this.
And secondly, how will it can before they can make it better then human eyes? Think infrared eyes]]>Apr 3rd 2006 5:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/04/03/bionic-eye-bypasses-optic-nerve/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/03/bionic-eye-bypasses-optic-nerve/
Would she be able to see say... a square?]]>Apr 3rd 2006 5:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/04/03/bionic-eye-bypasses-optic-nerve/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/03/bionic-eye-bypasses-optic-nerve/Apr 3rd 2006 5:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/04/03/bionic-eye-bypasses-optic-nerve/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/03/bionic-eye-bypasses-optic-nerve/Apr 3rd 2006 5:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/04/03/bionic-eye-bypasses-optic-nerve/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/03/bionic-eye-bypasses-optic-nerve/you need to have the use of your eyes from birth to 'learn' how to process vision.
theyve done experiments with people who were born without eyesight and given surgery to give them 'sight' - but they remain 'blind' because they cannot process the signals. ]]>Apr 3rd 2006 6:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/04/03/bionic-eye-bypasses-optic-nerve/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/03/bionic-eye-bypasses-optic-nerve/
Oops... true dat..

anyways #6, iv never heard of anything like this, makes sense though]]>Apr 3rd 2006 6:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/04/03/bionic-eye-bypasses-optic-nerve/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/03/bionic-eye-bypasses-optic-nerve/
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Catch!]]>Apr 3rd 2006 6:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/04/03/bionic-eye-bypasses-optic-nerve/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/03/bionic-eye-bypasses-optic-nerve/
However, there will always be trouble for people who have never had vision to associate what their new eyes see (ex. a red shape, a little taller than it is wide) and the idea of what the object is (a can of Coke).

Check out the story "To See and Not See" in Oliver Sacks' book An Anthropologist on Mars to learn more.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0679756973/sr=8-1/qid=1144106084/ref=sr_1_1/103-8327644-5466260?%5Fencoding=UTF8]]>Apr 3rd 2006 7:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/04/03/bionic-eye-bypasses-optic-nerve/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/03/bionic-eye-bypasses-optic-nerve/Apr 3rd 2006 8:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/04/03/bionic-eye-bypasses-optic-nerve/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/03/bionic-eye-bypasses-optic-nerve/Apr 3rd 2006 8:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/04/03/bionic-eye-bypasses-optic-nerve/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/03/bionic-eye-bypasses-optic-nerve/Apr 3rd 2006 8:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/04/03/bionic-eye-bypasses-optic-nerve/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/03/bionic-eye-bypasses-optic-nerve/Apr 3rd 2006 9:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/04/03/bionic-eye-bypasses-optic-nerve/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/03/bionic-eye-bypasses-optic-nerve/Talk about zapping the most vital organs in your body with more electricity, we may be seeing fried chicken someday.]]>Apr 3rd 2006 9:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/04/03/bionic-eye-bypasses-optic-nerve/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/03/bionic-eye-bypasses-optic-nerve/Apr 3rd 2006 10:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/04/03/bionic-eye-bypasses-optic-nerve/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/03/bionic-eye-bypasses-optic-nerve/Apr 4th 2006 12:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/04/03/bionic-eye-bypasses-optic-nerve/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/03/bionic-eye-bypasses-optic-nerve/http://cogimage.dsi.cnrs.fr/seminaires/resume_danilov_2005.htm]]>Apr 4th 2006 12:56AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/04/03/bionic-eye-bypasses-optic-nerve/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/03/bionic-eye-bypasses-optic-nerve/Apr 4th 2006 1:28AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/04/03/bionic-eye-bypasses-optic-nerve/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/03/bionic-eye-bypasses-optic-nerve/Apr 4th 2006 2:35AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/04/03/bionic-eye-bypasses-optic-nerve/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/03/bionic-eye-bypasses-optic-nerve/Apr 4th 2006 2:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/04/03/bionic-eye-bypasses-optic-nerve/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/03/bionic-eye-bypasses-optic-nerve/Apr 4th 2006 4:24AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/04/03/bionic-eye-bypasses-optic-nerve/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/03/bionic-eye-bypasses-optic-nerve/Apr 4th 2006 4:48AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/04/03/bionic-eye-bypasses-optic-nerve/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/03/bionic-eye-bypasses-optic-nerve/Apr 4th 2006 5:44AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/04/03/bionic-eye-bypasses-optic-nerve/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/03/bionic-eye-bypasses-optic-nerve/at http://www.seeingwithsound.com/etumble.htm
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I would like you to patch one of your eyes for a day and do EVERYTHING without that second eye (including driving and working on a computer).

Then read the article again and think to yourself, "what if I didn't have my other eye..."

Now you will understand how I see the world - with only one eye.]]>Apr 4th 2006 4:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/04/03/bionic-eye-bypasses-optic-nerve/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/03/bionic-eye-bypasses-optic-nerve/
but what if the devices controlling the imagery were programmed to slip in imagery that portrayed a false sense of reality ..

yeah.. uh .. think about that... ]]>Apr 5th 2006 11:56AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/04/03/bionic-eye-bypasses-optic-nerve/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/03/bionic-eye-bypasses-optic-nerve/
Also note "The Miracle Worker", the play about Helen Keller's teacher. Conceptual breakthroughs are possible with or without exquisite technology... the tech may, however, make them both more necessary and more likely. Oooh, have I got my fingers crossed!

Also:

"but what if the devices controlling the imagery were programmed to slip in imagery that portrayed a false sense of reality .. "

Cue "Twilight Zone" theme...]]>Jun 10th 2006 6:14PM