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tgamble · 09-08-2002, 08:25 AM

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"A HALF CENTURY OF ARTIFICIAL-SIGHT RESEARCH HAS SUCCEEDED. AND NOW THIS BLIND MAN CAN SEE."

Valentine Pontifex · 09-08-2002, 09:02 AM

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"A HALF CENTURY OF ARTIFICIAL-SIGHT RESEARCH HAS SUCCEEDED. AND NOW THIS BLIND MAN CAN SEE."

The Borg have been invented!

pz · 09-08-2002, 09:42 AM

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"A HALF CENTURY OF ARTIFICIAL-SIGHT RESEARCH HAS SUCCEEDED. AND NOW THIS BLIND MAN CAN SEE."

Let's be more accurate: "A BLIND MAN CAN roughly detect the spatial location of grainy, colorless blobs at the expense of major neurosurgery with the constant risk of hazardous seizures and completely unknown long term dangers."

tgamble · 09-08-2002, 10:22 AM

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Let's be more accurate: "A BLIND MAN CAN roughly detect the spatial location of grainy, colorless blobs at the expense of major neurosurgery with the constant risk of hazardous seizures and completely unknown long term dangers."

Well, if you want to be picky about it.

Duvenoy · 09-08-2002, 10:29 AM

But then, on the other hand, you've got to start somewhere. I find this research fascinating.

doov

tgamble · 09-08-2002, 11:18 AM

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But then, on the other hand, you've got to start somewhere. I find this research fascinating.

doov

Exactly

Jesus Tap-Dancin' Christ · 09-08-2002, 12:00 PM

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Originally posted by pz:


Let's be more accurate: "A BLIND MAN CAN roughly detect the spatial location of grainy, colorless blobs at the expense of major neurosurgery with the constant risk of hazardous seizures and completely unknown long term dangers."

Yeah, so? What's your point?

Camaban · 09-08-2002, 03:26 PM

there was a time when a prosthetic limb was a wooden stump, or a hook.

It's a start, and it'll improve.

Heck, I predict that in the near (within our lifetimes, anyway) It'll be worth scooping out perfectly functional eyes and replacing them with artificial ones, because they're simply so much better quality.

(I mean, Think of all the features you could get put in... incredible zoom, night vision, IF, etc etc etc. By the time these babies are properly made, only fools will want their original eyes... And you can just think of how the porno industry will fit into this (Hey, Hasn't it already found a niche in everything to do with our senses so far? Personally, I reckon that if we want research like this done quickly, we should give Playboy a blank cheque

))

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"The next version," Dobelle tells me, "may have enough resolution to use while driving in traffic." In fact, since this is only a simple camera we're talking about, one could imagine the addition of any number of superhuman optical features: night vision, X-ray vision, microscopic focus, long-range zoom. Forget the camera even; there's no reason you couldn't jack directly into the Net. In the future, the disabled may prove more abled; we may all want their prostheses.

Sums it up better than I had.

[ September 08, 2002: Message edited by: Camaban ]

Thesouphead · 09-09-2002, 08:38 AM

Yep, and pretty soon, a man will be able to take a digital picture just by puling on his ear.

MadMordigan · 09-09-2002, 09:01 AM

one could imagine the addition of any number of superhuman optical features: ....X-ray vision...

'Honey, your smiling..do you have your X-ray vison on again?'

*blush* 'No dear'

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Duvenoy Veteran Member Join Date: May 2002 Location: Just another hick from the sticks. Posts: 1,108	But then, on the other hand, you've got to start somewhere. I find this research fascinating. doov

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Thesouphead Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Atlanta Posts: 717	Yep, and pretty soon, a man will be able to take a digital picture just by puling on his ear.

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MadMordigan Beloved Deceased Join Date: Jul 2000 Location: Vancouver BC Canada Posts: 2,704	one could imagine the addition of any number of superhuman optical features: ....X-ray vision... 'Honey, your smiling..do you have your X-ray vison on again?' blush 'No dear'

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