Bionic Retinas Give Patients Sight

The Noof writes " Yahoo News is running a story about patients who have been given partial sight thanks to implants of silicon-based bionic retinas. " The article notes that the implant is having a "rescue effect" on the other components of the retina, restoring cells around the implant and making them useful again." Amazing stuff.

We have the technology

[Anonymous Coward]

We can save him.

Lose the arm.

Was I the only one...?

[doorbot.com]

For some reason, I read this story's title as "Bionic Retinas Give Patents Sight" which I thought was a reference to issuing/implanting bionic retinas in USPTO employees so that they would be better able to read the rediculous patents which cross their desks.

Maybe I could use a set of bionic retinas...

Uh Oh...

[NiftyNews]

Maybe their super-vision can help add to the list of continuity errors in Spider-Man...

Maybe they can give these to referees!

[Hexray]

I know a few calls where I would feel more comfortable if the refs had had these implants recently, if you know what I mean...

I wonder...

[maxmg]

Will there be Linux drivers for those things?

Re:Improvements

[Wylfing]

Yes, if you look very closely at these bionic eyes you will see the words "Zeiss-Ikon" etched onto the irises.

Re:Full Article Text

[0x0d0a]

Yes, it would be awful if Yahoo got slashdotted, wouldn't it? Better post the article, just to make sure.

bionics?

[phaserx]

bionic eyes to help the blind.. hrmm.. where's the line to sign up and test the bionic penis??

Re:Uh Oh...

[I.T.R.A.R.K.]

You're still pissed off about that whole genetically altered/radioactic spider confusion, aren't you? ;)

Re:Cyborgs

[ActiveSX]

...running on an AMD system

Too bad we'd all die from heat exhaustion. Well, unless you want to have a liquid cooled rib cage.

Re:bionics?

[damn dirty ape]

a bionic penis might be dangerous for slashdot readers... too many broken hands testing it out

Re:Cyborgs

[Anonymous Coward]

With a perspex window body mod, a neon light strapped to my aorta and a shelf for the beer, I'd be happy to let that liquid cooling double as my go-anywhere bar fridge.

Talk about unthankfulness

[xcomputer_man]

From the article:

"For another patient, though, the implant has been a bit sobering, Chow said. The patient, who has begun to recognize faces, was disappointed to see how his own face had aged."

I can almost hear those doctors now. "Dude. You've been blind for many years, you were chosen to have your sight restored by a groundbreaking scientific process, and the only thing you can think about is how old you are?

Get back on that operating table, I'm gonna yank that damn chip out your eye..."

Re:Full Article Text

[Winged Cat]

I'd bet a sufficiently large Beowulf cluster of slashdot effects could take even Yahoo! down. ^_^