http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/10.09/vision_pr.html
> Vision Quest
>
> A HALF CENTURY OF ARTIFICIAL-SIGHT RESEARCH HAS SUCCEEDED.
> AND NOW THIS BLIND MAN CAN SEE.
:
> Dobelle has designed a three-part system: a miniature video
> camera, a signal processor, and the brain implants. The camera,
> mounted on a pair of eyeglasses, captures the scene in front of
> the wearer. The processor translates the image into a series of
> signals that the brain can understand, then sends the information
> to the implant. The picture is fed into the brain and, if
> everything goes according to plan, the brain will "see" the
> image.
wow. Check out these implants:
http://static.wired.com/wired/archive/10.09/images/FF.Sight.DH.00002.r1_f.jpg
http://static.wired.com/wired/archive/10.09/images/FF.Sight.SH.29337.r2_f.jpg
:
> They gradually work the frame speed up until there's nothing left
> to do but strap the signal processor and power pack to Jens'
> hips, like guns in their holsters. Then Jens heads out back,
> where he climbs inside a convertible Mustang. The top is down.
> The wind is in his hair. He fires up the ignition. Dobelle
> doesn't let him tour the freeways, but he has his way with the
> parking lot.
>
> "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.
This occurred to me a while ago as I was playing with my video
camera, using its 10x zoom to see something I couldn't see with
my own eyes: a few years in the future, after components have
gotten smaller and prices have dropped further, anyone should be
able to get implants that let you switch to a 20x zoom or night
vision, just by winking your eye a certain way or something.
And the implant-phobic can just wear something the size of a pair
of sunglasses to do the same thing.
slashdot discussion:
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/08/14/1921239&mode=thread&tid=126&threshold=3
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