Bionic eye gives sight to the blind in medical breakthrough

[cpt.armadillo]

Yeah well I'm still a cyborg with my hearing aids.

[Conely]

does it make me a cyborg if I've got a plate of steel in my arm

[DeEz]

[QUOTE=Cone;35842317]does it make me a cyborg if I've got a plate of steel in my arm[/QUOTE]

i am so jealous you already got your augments

[pr00ch]

[QUOTE=RobbL;35825715]iBall[/QUOTE]

Balls of Steel.

[cpt.armadillo]

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bxtS6UeOyo[/media] Gotta replace some verses with augmented eye stuff.

[Smartlord]

[QUOTE=proch;35845672]Balls of Aluminium[/QUOTE]

Fixed. Because, hey, it's an Apple product.

[.py]

This is incredible.
Imagine what you could do with this.
You could possibly modify it to present a heads-up display, allowing you to see the time, date and other information without looking at anything. It'd be like Google Glass, but without the ugly glasses.

[SundayRoast]

[QUOTE=imptastick;35812064]I wonder if this technology will work for individuals born blind, wish there was a more specific explanation.

One thing though not everyone will want this, my mom was told she was a perfect candidate for surgery to repair her hearing (She is deaf in one ear and wears a hearing aid in the other) and she said no. [B]Many people see their disability as a important part of who they are[/B].[/QUOTE]

Or are just people so bland that they see their disability as the only thing setting them apart from the masses.

[Recurracy]

I wonder how this works. Converting electronic signals to biological signals and vice versa seems really weird to me. It's cool how it all works though, your nerves are the wiring and your brain's the processor unit. Except there's two different protocols in transferring the signals.
This reminds me of these robotic prothestic arms some people had. I wonder how they control them. If it's exactly the same as controlling their muscles, then that's pretty rad.

[Smartlord]

[QUOTE=Recurracy;35860454]I wonder how this works. Converting electronic signals to biological signals and vice versa seems really weird to me. It's cool how it all works though, your nerves are the wiring and your brain's the processor unit. Except there's two different protocols in transferring the signals.
This reminds me of these robotic prothestic arms some people had. I wonder how they control them. If it's exactly the same as controlling their muscles, then that's pretty rad.[/QUOTE]
Usually prosthetic arms are controlled by sensors which sense your muscles moving at the point where they end. So in other words it's not a direct connection to their body, it's generally extremely simple and limited compared a real arm or the type of prosthesis envisioned in Deus Ex, where the prosthesis has a direct connection with the nervous system.

[lapsus_]

Awesome. Does it work even if you have a very bad vision? how much noticeable is the modification?