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Sunday, April 10, 2005

bionic eyes!

Wow:
"US scientists have designed a bionic eye to allow blind people to see again. It comprises a computer chip that sits in the back of the individual's eye, linked up to a mini video camera built into glasses that they wear. Images captured by the camera are beamed to the chip, which translates them into impulses that the brain can interpret." (BBC)
If they have this technology, which senses visible light, then it should be easy to adapt it to detect radiation in the ultrared end of the spectrum, which means that my lifelong dream of having PredatorvisionTM may finally be realized.