How cool is this? Geordi La Forge ain't got nothing on him! :cool:

 

On January 17, 2000, it was announced that a patient known as "Jerry", blind after a blow to his head 36 years previous, had regained his ability see thanks to an artificial eye developed over the past 30 years by American eye specialist, William Dobelle. Jerry "sees" by wearing spectacles attached to a miniature camera and an ultrasonic rangefinder. They feed signals to a computer worn on the waistband, which processes the video and distance data, which is then sent by another computer to 68 platinum electrodes implanted in Jerry's brain, on the surface of the visual cortex. He sees a simple display of dots that outline an object. Jerry's vision is the same as a severely shortsighted person - equivalent to 20/400. He is able to read two-inch letters at five feet.

 

 

 

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That's neat

cool :cool:

Old hat, seen it before, as in I saw an article about in in Popular Science about the time they done did it.

They should have something a lot sweeter than 68pixel resolution by now... like sharks with friggin' lasers on their heads! Why cant science ever come up with something useful?! "helping the blind"? Friggin' sissies..

 

 

 

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Old hat, seen it before, as in I saw an article about in in Popular Science about the time they done did it.

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Ditto. (It was in Wired or New Scientist back when it was news.)

 

It's actually a little more interesting, too. There are in fact two rival "mad scientists" each developing their own cybernetic implants, and calling the other one "mad".

 

IIRC, this is about the third person he's implanted a cybernetic interface with; the earlier versions were even more crude (and no chance for an upgrade!).

 

"He's implanting into the ocular cortex with 68 platinum electrodes? Barbarian!"

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Sweet :cool:

I must say, should I ever go blind I would hope we have designed an alternative solution whereby a large wire does not stick out of my head.

It's a prototype. Boy, everyone's a critic. (No wonder scientists get mad.)

I appreciate the infantile nature of the development of this area. I simply hope that by the time my vision fails (should it do so), we have advanced sufficiently not to forever impair my ability to prevent holes in my head.

Holes, smoles. What's another little hole g'unna do to you?

Spellmar says, "Should there be an apostrophe in "gunna," though I do not believe there would be as the term is an unusual contraction, it would occur either following the last 'n' but before the 'a' or following the first 'n' but before the second. This is based upon the original words "going to" that form "gunna" - "going"="gunn" and/or "gun" and "to"="a" and/or "na" - and the rule for contractional blending of two independent words.

 

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Ah woun' mind a hole or two in ma heed as long dey aint too deep.

Spellmar says, "Should there be an apostrophe in "gunna," though I do not believe there would be as the term is an unusual contraction, it would occur either following the last 'n' but before the 'a' or following the first 'n' but before the second. This is based upon the original words "going to" that form "gunna" - "going"="gunn" and/or "gun" and "to"="a" and/or "na" - and the rule for contractional blending of two independent words.

 

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I debted where to put the apostrophe, and I decided that it made the most syntactic sense (even if the aesthetics sucked) was the first non-represented letter of the new contraction.

 

I think the only other way to spell the word would be to leave out the apostrophe altogether, thus: "gunna".

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...which was my primary suggestion.

I want JC Dentons visual enhancements and nothing less.

I remember in one of my psych classes putting an electrical transmitter on the tongue of a blind individual that was attached to a special camera.

 

The brain was able to interpret these signals in such a way that the person was able to detect what was in front of them accurately. It was pretty neat.

 

Someone else tried a similar idea by putting it on the forehead of an individual that was completely paralysed below the top of her head (not sure why she still had feeling there, but she did). It also worked with her, although with prolonged exposure, the effect didn't seem to last.

 

The scientist theorized that the tongue is sensitive enough that it doesn't acclimatize itself to the stimulus, whereas the forehead does.

Those electrode wires sticking out of the head look nasty. I'm afraid to think what would happen if someone gave them a strong yank.

I remember in one of my psych classes putting an electrical transmitter on the tongue of a blind individual that was attached to a special camera.

 

The brain was able to interpret these signals in such a way that the person was able to detect what was in front of them accurately.  It was pretty neat.

 

Someone else tried a similar idea by putting it on the forehead of an individual that was completely paralysed below the top of her head (not sure why she still had feeling there, but she did).  It also worked with her, although with prolonged exposure, the effect didn't seem to last.

 

The scientist theorized that the tongue is sensitive enough that it doesn't acclimatize itself to the stimulus, whereas the forehead does.

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Wow. Normally, just after an accident resulting in paraplegia / amputation, the brain's neurons are still able to adapt that now-useless part of the sensory map to a new sense. I seem to remember a case where a patient was able to map their right hand feelings to their prosthetic arm and hand (or similar), and also of weird stuff like a newly-blind person's pain receptors on their face giving off colours, or some such. (Sorry, the details are so sparse, it must be a ong time since I read this. Probably a lecture I fell asleep in ...)

So if I'd give up sight; it might generate a telepathic ability for me?

Why cant science ever come up with something useful?!

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Like a giant shrimp you could go out with, ride it, then go home at night and eat it? And unlike women you wouldn't need to take them out to dinner to get all that.

 

Yeah, science needs to make some of those.

Who was it that was hung up on the girl that turned into a pizza after a night of torrid tumescence-potting?

Like a giant shrimp you could go out with, ride it, then go home at night and eat it? And unlike women you wouldn't need to take them out to dinner to get all that.

 

Yeah, science needs to make some of those.

Well, I don't know about shrimps, but I hear that...

 

 

...the Mandalorians are recruiting!

Like a giant shrimp you could go out with, ride it, then go home at night and eat it? And unlike women you wouldn't need to take them out to dinner to get all that.

 

Yeah, science needs to make some of those.

Well, I don't know about shrimps, but I hear that...

 

 

...the Mandalorians are recruiting!

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:D

 

Use this one NumberMan: