Still More Bionic Eyes 161
jeno writes "An Australian-invented 'bionic eye' device is about to begin human trials. The device consists of a silicon chip inserted into the eye, which is designed to act like a retina -- receiving images captured by a pair of glasses worn by the user."
Glasses? (Score:2, Funny)
Worse than pop-ups (Score:3, Funny)
Sex for the Ugly (Score:5, Funny)
Speech for the Deaf [slashdot.org], Sight for the Blind [slashdot.org], now all we need is Sex for the Ugly [kuro5hin.org] and I'll be all set.
Yeah... (Score:2, Funny)
The future of the bionic eye (Score:5, Funny)
Manufacturers continue to trip over each other in their efforts to corner the market, and come up with even more incompatible formats. Consumers who purchase the systems find that the left eye from manufacturer X (about to go out of business) and right eye from manufacturer Y (about to go out of business) both want to be in charge of what you're looking at. Getting different components to cooperate is next to impossible. When one eye breaks, you have to get them both replaced because everything is incompatible with everything else and every model is discontinued or obsoleted as soon as it comes out. People start to write scathing reviews about how the industry and Congress both need to get their act together.
Meanwhile, consumers look at this fiasco and rightly conclude that their eyes are working fine, and that there is no reason to throw them out.
Radio waves? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Sex for the Ugly (Score:2, Funny)
Remember "$6M Man" (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Scramjets, Bionic Eyes and Ears, Nicole Kidman. (Score:1, Funny)
Gratuitous Sci-Fi reference - Bab 5 (Score:3, Funny)
Reminds me of Babylon 5 when G'Kar has his bionic eye, especially when he can take it out and still see from it.
(Sheriden and Delenn - honeymoon night)
Londo: (something along the lines of) It almost makes you wish you could peek in and see what they are doing.
(G'Kar looks distracted)
Londo: G'Kar, where is the prosthetic eye that Dr. Franklin made for you?
(G'kar is smiling)
(Scene changes to show the eye on a table looking towards the honeymoon bed)
It runs Linux! (Score:1, Funny)
On-topic and pro-linux. I'm certain this is going to get modded up!