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Pope John Peeps II
11/12/08

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Step 3: Profit!
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tehsquish
11/12/08

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Maybe if we all ask him really really nicely Benheck will do it.
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Rabid Penguin
11/12/08

@squish123: He'd even make the eye functional for a one-handed person.
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jdbaile3
11/12/08

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The biggest problem would be the moisture required in the eye socket itself. You cant have functioning electronics coming into contact with your body fluids. At the minimum it needs a charging outlet.
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GitEmSteveDave_DefinesTurgid
11/12/08

@jdbaile3: Not is it uses an induction recharger, like what is built into a lot of the newer powered toothbrushes. I can put mine soaking wet into it's charging base and not worry about shorting it out.
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EBone
11/12/08

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The technology exists to do what she wants, and even getting it down to the right size could be handled. But it sounds like what she is really looking for is a way to connect the device to what's left of her optical nerve and input the "DVR recordings," etc. right into her brain.

Sorry Tanya, we're not there technologically yet.
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LiviaSnake
11/12/08

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I'm sorry but I personally find this to be ridiculous. She want's someone to build her some crazy eye that, like many people have said before, harnesses some impossible technology... all so she can have depth perception?

C'mon! She has one good eye! Try closing one of your eyes and walking around, its not hard. She seems to be overreacting. I'm not saying car accidents aren't bad, i agree they are horrible and I'm sorry she had to lose one of her eyes in one but please, this is unnecessary.

If anyone could possible even just sufficiently incorporate some sort of eye that works with the brain just with a simple video function, then thats fantastic and I think that it should be implemented in the blind before it is used with this lady. Thats just me. Feel free to add anything.
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GitEmSteveDave_DefinesTurgid
11/12/08

@LiviaSnake: True, walking around familiar environments isn't hard. But when you go into an area that you have never been in before, or never been in since you became partially blind, it does become harder. I once said the same thing you did in my Psych class. After the Prof related the case of a friend of hers, and we discussed it in class, I did realize how hard it is. The big difference is it's easy to say close one eye, or close both eyes. It ceases to be easy when you can't re-open it.
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habib15
11/12/08

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This could be possible...

if the eye is only a wireless camera transmitting to a box worn on the body that housed the storage and connectors. The eye could be charged by taking it out every night and putting it on those wireless induction charging pads for PDAs and phones.
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GitEmSteveDave_DefinesTurgid
11/12/08

@habib15: Exactly what I was thinking. An Eye-Fi card will meet the storage and transmission needs. IIRC from a kid I went to summer camp with, he had to take his eye out to clean it. You can have a charger built into a cup which will clean the eye at night. Blink sensors should be easy, and you can add a small vibe motor/vibe speaker which either gives feedback from a vibe, or uses the ocular cavity to transmit sound through the head. An Ipod touch seems to meet most of the hardware needs, and is easily worn on the hip, and can be used to remotely trigger the cam/get status/preview.

Plus you add in a wicked cool red LED when you record. ;)
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Shai
11/12/08

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Step 2: [memory-alpha.org]
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GitEmSteveDave_DefinesTurgid
11/12/08

@Shai: I think Babylon 5 was closer when they gave G'Kar a prosthetic eye which could transmit wirelessly. I think in one scene, he even left it in a room and watched what went on inside when he left.
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Rabid Penguin
11/12/08

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She wants to be able to stick firewire/usb and sd cards into her eye-ball? 1) How big is her eye-ball, and 2) that's a little weird... and disgusting.

Does she want the recordings fed into her brain?

Maybe she could hollow out her eye and store some small jacks in it for when she gets bored, or turn her eye into a smoke bomb... that's probably more realistic...
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SGlick1980
11/12/08

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It's not that the technology doesn't exist. It's access to the technology that's the problem.

The super small camera exists

I remember reading about plastics that expand and contract with electricity, so that will satisfy the pupil requirement

Liquid lenses would handle the 3x optical zoom.

I'm sure there are mini usb slots small enough, the une in my razr would do

I think it's limited by cost and access, not technology.

That, and that's just way too much in one little eye.
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Kayonesoft
11/12/08

@SGlick1980: Then there's the heat issue.
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GitEmSteveDave_DefinesTurgid
11/12/08

@Kayonesoft: Tell him about the Twinkie.
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Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
11/12/08

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So where are the mini SD card slot and all the connectors going to be mounted? Is she planning on shaving her head?
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Nutchromeo
11/12/08

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Most important feature: Ability to turn the pupil red
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Serolf Divad
11/12/08

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How 'bout we compromise and instead give her a novelty eye that squirts a stream of water when she winks.
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Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
11/12/08

@Serolf Divad: Tub-girl already has the squirting eye option covered...
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RobLikesbrunch
11/12/08

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"Wireless Charger"

I hope she means something that she can carry with here..rather than "wireless" electricity.

Does she plan to have some sort of display for her other eye so she can use those features...or does she want it somehow wired in her brain so it acts as an artificial eye? That'd be a multi-million dollar project.

Way too ambitious, needs a huge budget- never going to happen.
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GitEmSteveDave_DefinesTurgid
11/12/08

@RobLikesbrunch: Reach the moon? Impossible. Build a magic device which can communicate miles away? Can't do it. Dock two spacecraft in space? You stand in the back yard, I'll stand in the front, you throw a tennis ball over my roof and I'll try to hit it with a rock as it comes sailing over. No one could ever do that. Make a toothbrush which can charge in a base without any external charging contacts, and thus wirelessly. Perhaps in a thousand years!

Wait, all those things were done? Shit.
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