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    Elderly Man Sees For First Time in 30 Years With Bionic Eye

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    Image of FЯeeMan FЯeeMan
    03/05/09

    In reply to Elderly Man Sees For First Time in 30 Years With Bionic Eye
    After 30 years of not being able to see, he is now privileged to do the absolute worst of the household tasks - sorting socks. Talk about your mixed blessings...
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    Image of badhatharry badhatharry
    03/05/09

    In reply to Elderly Man Sees For First Time in 30 Years With Bionic Eye
    Is his name Laura Mars?
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    Image of MacAttack7388 MacAttack7388
    03/05/09

    In reply to Elderly Man Sees For First Time in 30 Years With Bionic Eye
    Very cool. I hope that in the future, all body parts could be replaced.


    Whether that's through bionic implants, or some crazy advances in stem cell usage.

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    Image of Morgan Breden Morgan Breden
    03/05/09

    @MacAttack7388: Pneumatic Penis?
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    Image of ScottRose ScottRose
    03/05/09

    @Morgan Breden:


    We are close...


    [www.mayoclinic.com]


    With great features such as:


    "Can take pressure off the inside of the penis by deflating the implant when not in use, reducing the chance for injury."

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    Image of TheHeartless TheHeartless
    03/05/09

    In reply to Elderly Man Sees For First Time in 30 Years With Bionic Eye
    This is beautiful.
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    Image of Gilbert Tang Jr. Gilbert Tang Jr.
    03/05/09

    In reply to Elderly Man Sees For First Time in 30 Years With Bionic Eye
    They had websites in the 1940s?
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    Image of Gilbert Tang Jr. Gilbert Tang Jr.
    03/05/09

    @Gilbert: Correction: 1970s.


    Ugh, foot = mouth. Haha.

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    Image of CrashingOut CrashingOut
    03/05/09

    In reply to Elderly Man Sees For First Time in 30 Years With Bionic Eye
    So now he can sort socks? Forgive me for not RTFA(An extremely obnoxious and heavily accented woman started yelling at when I made the jump, honest!) but I think someone should tell Canon or Nikon to get in on CCD/CMOS production suited for bionics, would get them a tonka truckload of publicity, and maybe stir the ethics pot...human upgrades? I'm calling it that we will see the words "Human Upgrades" printed, and advertised, by 2017. Because really, there is a scary amount of things we have only begun to tap into, such as energy harvesting through biokinetics(? right?) and ocular augmentation, perhaps modification of the skin to make it more resistant to increasing quantities of UV rays? Damn, this doesn't end....it just stops where we want it to...
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    Image of ScottRose ScottRose
    03/05/09

    @CrashingOut:


    Buh? I think this bionic eye apparatus uses a standard CCD or CMOS sensor. In fact, it's probably really low res, and off the shelf from a webcam. (I saw a documentary on this company's research and it seems that way).


    And also, what are you, a fool? It ends with Darth Vader, or the Borg. Depending upon where you hail from in Nerdvania.


    @TrevorTheGreat:


    Very good call.

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    Image of Kimistry Kimistry
    03/05/09

    In reply to Elderly Man Sees For First Time in 30 Years With Bionic Eye
    I believe you meant "sight", not "site".
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    Image of ScottRose ScottRose
    03/05/09

    @Kimistry:


    Lookt perfekly fin@ to me, and Iv'e bean on web sights all dayz.

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    Image of Jersson Gomez Jersson Gomez
    03/05/09

    In reply to Elderly Man Sees For First Time in 30 Years With Bionic Eye
    i wonder if that bionic eye can give you the ability to look directly at the sun.
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    Image of IN THE FACE! IN THE FACE!
    03/05/09

    @Jersson Gomez: Whoa, man, thats faaar out. Hey, pass me the bong.
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    Image of Steve Galea Steve Galea
    03/05/09

    In reply to Elderly Man Sees For First Time in 30 Years With Bionic Eye
    If he takes a look at Barack Obama..."Gooood night." haha
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    Image of IN THE FACE! IN THE FACE!
    03/05/09

    @Steve Galea: Go back to facebook you asshat.
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    Image of CrashingOut CrashingOut
    03/05/09

    @Steve Galea: oh, and "eat penguin shit, you ass belonker"
    because we all know facebook means facefuck here.
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    Image of badhatharry badhatharry
    03/05/09

    @Steve Galea: Well, at least you laughed at it.
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    Image of Piker247 Piker247
    03/05/09

    @bpapa9013:


    There is no irony at all in blindly bashing all facebookers out of one side of your mouth, then chastising some jackass for what appears to be a racist comment out of the other. None at all...

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    Image of Ethan Shaffer Ethan Shaffer
    03/05/09

    @Piker247: I don't think that your observation holds as much water as you would like for it to.


    Racism shouldn't be tolerated. I mean you can hate people regardless of race, but not because of race.


    In this setting, bpapa9013 is calling out 1 facebooker for his obvious flaws. The "facebook factor" may contribute, but I don't think it's the reason.


    I hope I'm making sense. It's kinda early in my time zone. lol.

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    Image of Piker247 Piker247
    03/05/09

    @Ethan Shaffer:


    While it certainly is not the same as racism, to me, elitism isn't so different than racism at it's base. The assumption that all facebookers are a bunch of annoying and mindless tards is not very different that assuming the same about of racial profile. Or, as another poster put it the other day; "It's a bunch of snarky nerds." I mean, Facebook = not cool??? Come on, didn't most people get past this stuff in high school?

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    Image of Gann Gann
    03/05/09

    @Piker247: There are two intrinsic difference between facebook hate and racism.


    1. Facebookers can easily create a gawker account, but a person cannot just change race.


    2. Many regulars here probably also have a facebook account. The mere fact that you have a facebook account is not what provokes anger.


    The facebook stereotype exists for a reason. If you don't want to be associated with the idiocy that comes with that little f, get a gawker account.

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    Image of ScottRose ScottRose
    03/05/09

    @CrashingOut:


    "eat penguin shit, you ass belonker"


    LOL. That was hilarious.. Because it's ass spelunker.


    As in, "one whom explores the innards of an ass in the manner of exploring a system of caves".

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    Image of I_have_something_to_say I_have_something_to_say
    03/05/09

    In reply to Elderly Man Sees For First Time in 30 Years With Bionic Eye
    I wonder if it makes that bionic sound when he zooms in?
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    Image of Hello Mister Walrus Hello Mister Walrus
    03/05/09

    @I_have_something_to_say: No, but it makes "pew pew" sounds when he fires the laser.
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    Image of ripfire ripfire
    12/23/08

    In reply to Nano-Sized Semiconductor Dots Could Fix Your Terrible Vision
    I wonder if it can do infrared...
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