Gadgets
Eye Power, Your Pushbutton Nearsightedness Cure, or One-Way Ticket to Blindness
Posted by Charlie White at 3:55 AM on November 30, 2007
If the thought of blindness doesn't scare you, this Eye Power thingamajig supposedly uses ultrasonic waves to somehow jostle your nearsighted eyeball into compliance. Its makers claim a ten-minute session can cure those bleary deadlights of yours, so you can toss away those specs and contacts, forever eagle-eyed and triumphant over your once-stubborn progressive myopia. Either that or start getting used to playing lots of blues and wearing very dark sunglasses.
Please, if you're going to drop $US800 on this snake-oil experiment, just try it on one eye first. So it either works (doubtful), makes you blind, or does nothing but separate you from your $800. We're not about to test it. [Rakuten, via DVICE]

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Arsenal6
Posted 3:50 PM 29/11/07
LOL
Arsenal6
feckineejit
Posted 2:39 PM 29/11/07
considering people believe that impurities can be sucked out of your feet by placing them in a bucket of water with an electrical current running through it, this pseudo-scientific eye-ruiner doesn't surprise me. There's a sucker born every minute.
feckineejit
aec007
Posted 2:33 PM 29/11/07
I bet it's FDA™ approved!
(That's Focal Dysfunctional Associates™)
aec007
infmom
Posted 2:28 PM 29/11/07
"Eye power"? More like "eye blower."
infmom
jibbly
Posted 1:40 PM 29/11/07
@bobdobbs: Hahahaha, good one.
"Wha...? What's so funny? Why is everyone pointing and laughing? And how come that coke vending machine is moving on it's own?"
jibbly
Nintenboy01
Posted 1:09 PM 29/11/07
If Cyclops tried to use this would it make his Optic Blast even more potent?
Nintenboy01
CColdsmoke
Posted 1:08 PM 29/11/07
Is that ten minutes per eye or ten minutes total? If it's ten minutes per eye, I might have to buy two. If I wanted to go blind slowly, I'd just stick to the masturbation method.
CColdsmoke
monkeyrotica
Posted 1:08 PM 29/11/07
First thing I thought when I saw that thing was, "Cool! They're bringing back the Fisher Price Pixelvision!"
monkeyrotica
Nintenboy01
Posted 1:04 PM 29/11/07
@OddManOut: Apparently this thing doesn't have any laser, it uses ultrasonic wave patterns or something.
Nintenboy01
bobdobbs
Posted 1:01 PM 29/11/07
Where's the knee-slapping after-shot of that asian chick with black ink all around her eye?
bobdobbs
OddManOut
Posted 1:00 PM 29/11/07
Don't knock it till you've tried it. I mean sure, there's probably a 99.999% chance that it won't work (or that it won't work in 99.999% of cases) but 25 years ago who would of thought intentionaly shinning a fricken laser beam in your eye would be GOOD for it.
But at that, if you're going to drop $800 on your eyes anyway you probably should just go whole hog and get the fricken laser surgery, which is a proven treatment. It's usually around or under $2k...
(But I must admit, 'Oldmanstan's logic did cross my mind and makes a pretty strong argument for this being quackery :P )
OddManOut
Robin
Posted 1:00 PM 29/11/07
This is so Lasik@Home. [www.lasikathome.com]
Robin
hicks
Posted 12:58 PM 29/11/07
"Snake oil" is too kind. Snake milk, maybe.
hicks
Some of My Best Friends Are People
Posted 12:46 PM 29/11/07
I hear Billy Blanks is really popular in Japan. Maybe he should try it.
Some of My Best Friends Are People
Nintenboy01
Posted 12:43 PM 29/11/07
I could steal this thing while disguised as a Pantsu vending machine and test this on my nearsighted old dog but that would be sheer cruelty!
Nintenboy01
oldmanstan
Posted 12:27 PM 29/11/07
see, i really REALLY don't understand how people can fall for this kind of thing. if there was a device that cost $800 bucks and could fix my eyes in a matter of minutes my eye doctor would have one in his office in like 17 seconds so he could charge people $350 per treatment thus lining his pockets and saving me 100 bucks. it scares me that there are people out there too stupid to figure that out.
oldmanstan
fusedinertia
Posted 12:25 PM 29/11/07
I mean really, I am speechless....
fusedinertia
DeeJayQueue
Posted 12:15 PM 29/11/07
someone left a power stapler and half a fisher-price my-first-camcorder in the vacu-form table.
This thing will record your eyeball's disintegration in BETA!
DeeJayQueue
jibbly
Posted 12:13 PM 29/11/07
HAW HAW HAW HAW! This thing seriously made me laugh out loud. WTF???
jibbly
impliedsurprise
Posted 12:12 PM 29/11/07
I would not let anything that looks like it came from the dollar store that purports to automagically fix my eye anywhere near any opening of my body.
The girl looks like she realized life is not worth it and she's determined to shoot herself.
impliedsurprise
islandmonk
Posted 4:55 PM 29/11/07
that lady wasn't Asian when she started
islandmonk
hn333
Posted 4:14 PM 29/11/07
@oldmanstan: You really think your doctor wants to put himself out of business?
hn333
hn333
Posted 4:11 PM 29/11/07
Maybe we should see some tests with this device first before we start calling it Snake oil. I remember they laughed at the Wright brothers silly little flying machine too.
hn333
banmojo
Posted 7:28 PM 29/11/07
@OddManOut: "25 years ago who would of thought intentionaly shinning a fricken laser beam in your eye would be GOOD for it." I bet Doc Savage coulda come up with an idea like that :^))
banmojo
whiskey
Posted 1:09 AM 30/11/07
Looks like a portable suicide booth... :D
whiskey
Cliff_Dangers
Posted 9:59 AM 30/11/07
don't know about you guys but i can get laser eye surgery done for about 1500.. and i'm not performing the operation on myself
Cliff_Dangers
DocHoliday
Posted 9:24 AM 30/11/07
@Nintenboy01: No. Plus on a per eye basis it's less economical for him.
DocHoliday