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Careful, You’ll Poke An Eye Out With That Thing
2:30AM Jack Loftus | How might one repair a cyborg’s eye in the future? Why, with this handy eyeball-removing tool. How does one forget what’s seen in this image? Macallan 12 years, neat, that’s how. [Bloomers and Bows via Boing Boing Gadgets] More »
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Intelligent Learning Retinal Implants To Adapt To Real Eyes
7:20AM Adam Frucci | A Swiss company called IMI has been putting its “Intelligent Retinal Implant System” through clinical trials for the past three years. When it’s ready, it could help restore sight to the blind. More »
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I Wear My Suncontacts At Night
11:10AM Mark Wilson | Photochromic lenses that allow you to walk from inside to outside without putting on UV-filtering lenses have been around for decades. But the technology is just making its way to contacts. More »
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What Is This Guy Doing?
11:40AM Jesus Diaz | What is Mr. Roboto doing here? Perhaps checking some CEATEC booth girl’s ass? Staring at the suspicious character crawling towards him off camera, the one dressed as a giant pink chicken? No, the answer is much cooler than all that. More »
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Forget Designer Purses, I Want Some Designer Eyeballs
1:00PM Rosa Golijan | LASIK’s been around a while, and somehow it was only a matter of time before designer vision, corneas custom-tailored to lifestyle and career, started to turn common. Could laser eye surgery will become the new graduation boob job? More »
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Tiny Telescopes Help The Blind See Again
3:40PM Jack Loftus | The inexorable advance of the bionic eye continued this weekend, as doctors reported they were able to implant tiny telescopes (telescopes!) into the eyes of patients suffering from macular degeneration. More »
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Stem Cell Contact Lenses Cure Blindness in Less Than a Month
4:00AM Adam Frucci | Here’s something that people with poor or no vision will be excited about: three patients had their sight restored in less than a month by contact lenses cultured with stem cells. More »
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Filmmaker Gets His Cyborg-Like LED Prosthetic Eye
1:00PM Erica Ho | Filmmaker Rob Spence has made headway on his new “eye-to-eye” documentary—literally. They’ve managed to attach a LED to his prosthetic eye, making him look very Governator-esque. Hey, it could double as a flashlight too. More »
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Nano-Sized Semiconductor Dots Could Fix Your Terrible Vision
8:20AM Adrian Covert | New Scientist reports that researchers at the University of Colorado came up with this crazy idea that if they inject semiconductor nanoparticles in your retinas, photons will make them glow, thus improving your vision. More »
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