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A couple years ago, six blind patients were given rudimentary vision with 16-pixel bionic eyes. See the article here: http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2007/feb/16/news.medicineandhealthMore recently, a 60-pixel version was developed. And now, according to a recent article in the Boston Herald, there is this:  Forget curing blindness, this baby allows us to fool the retinal eye scan at the casinos!
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Wow Jim, I was just about to start a thread in this section titled 'Signs of the Singularity' (catchy, eh?) and kick it off with this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=696dxY6BYBMbut now I'll post it here instead.
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Neo wrote:Wow Jim, I was just about to start a thread in this section titled 'Signs of the Singularity' (catchy, eh?) . Hehe another example of these strange coincidences perhaps??
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stendec wrote:Neo wrote:Wow Jim, I was just about to start a thread in this section titled 'Signs of the Singularity' (catchy, eh?) . Hehe another example of these strange coincidences perhaps?? I'd actually cut that video piece and was going to paste it in a new thread here ('Transhumanism & Singularities') until I saw a thread titled 'Bionic Vision' when I came to post  .
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Not bionic vision, but I thought I'd post it here: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20081007/sc_nm/us_blindness_generapid progress is being made on the genetics front too.
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