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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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Tiny 4mm Telephoto Lens Implant Is One Step Closer To Being in Your Eye
2:50AM John Mahoney | For people suffering from advanced macular degeneration, this lens implant magnifies light at 2.2x to 3x and projects it onto the healthy part of the retina, avoiding the damaged blind spot. More »
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Polymer Implant Trains Immune Cells To Find and Destroy Tumors
5:20AM Sean Fallon | Researchers at Harvard have developed a polymer immunotherapy implant that trains the immune system to become cancer soldiers that seek out and destroy tumors inside the body. More »
Hardware
Brain-Implanted Bionic Sex Stimulation Chip Is Probably Not Needed
10:27PM Jesus Diaz | Scientists are working in a new brain-implanted sex stimulation chip that will make you even more horny than what you already are. Apparently, according to Oxford University researcher Professor Aziz, it was discovered by accident: More »
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Brain Electrode Implants Helps Paralysed Monkey Regain Arm Movement
12:00PM Adrian Covert | Scientists at the Washington National Primate Research Centre have found a way to restore movement to paralysed monkeys through the use of brain implants. Equipped with roving electrodes, these implants seek out and restore neural connections between in the brain and the rest of the body necessary for movement. According to the New Scientist, the monkey was able to move its wrist on a paralysed arm. More »
Gadgets
Stable, Sane Young Man Installs DIY RFID Implant into His Hand
8:13PM John Herrman | Some people are sick of waiting for the RFID implant controversy to play out, and at least one of those people is taking action. YouTube user Quethe has posted a video demonstrating his own RFID implantation technique, involving a terrifying pencil-size needle and a chip designed for pets, which he is using for a predictably unnerving purpose. Also — and Quethe makes this quite clear — this implant does not mean that he is the Antichrist. Phew! Mildly NSFW video and generally unhinged Millenialist ruminations after the jump. More »
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Parachute Fail Victim Receives First Implant of the Eon Mini Pacemaker For Pain
1:00AM Sean Fallon | Adam Hammond, a former member of the U.S. Army’s “Golden Knights” Parachute Team, has become the first recipient of the Eon Mini—the world’s smallest spinal cord stimulator. After suffering a broken femur, a shattered pelvis and a severed spine in an epic parachute fail a few years ago, it seemed that Hammond would be condemned to a life of severe chronic pain. Doctors hoped that implanting the new Eon Mini would offer a solution by delivering repeated mild electrical impulses to the spinal cord. So far, Hammond claims that the device offers “significant pain relief” and that he was able to “walk twice as far” as he could previously. More »
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Mexico’s Rich Embedding GPS-Assisted RFID Tags Under Their Skin In Case of Kidnapping
2:50AM John Mahoney | Mexico has a pretty serious kidnapping problem–so serious that there is now a market for a US$4,000 RFID implant procedure (plus a US$2,200 annual fee) that promises to help track victims down. The system uses an implanted capsule under the skin that talks to an external GPS transmitter that you’ll need to be kidnapped with in order to beam your location to the folks at Xega, who are selling the service. Anyone else see a gigantic hole in this setup? More »
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Electric Implant Device Could Do Away With Gastric Bypass
4:00AM Sean Fallon | Thanks to the research team at EnteroMedics, there may be new hope in our quest to lose weight while avoiding regular physical activity and a healthy diet. The device they have come up with is implanted just under the skin and uses electrical signals to block the vagus nerve—which controls how the stomach expands when we eat. Naturally, if the stomach doesn’t expand, that would mean that the user would feel full much faster than normal. It also reduces our craving for food in general. More »
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