Bionic Eye Gives Blind Man Sight 203
AmigaMMC writes "A man who lost his sight 30 years ago says he can now see flashes of light after being fitted with a bionic eye. Ron, 73, had the experimental surgery seven months ago at London's Moorfield's eye hospital. He says he can now follow white lines on the road, and even sort socks using the bionic eye, known as Argus II. I wouldn't go as far as claiming he regained his sight, but this certainly is a biotechnological breakthrough."
Then again (Score:5, Funny)
I'm not buying it (Score:4, Funny)
so a man gets his sight back after being blind for 30 years, and the very first thing he does ISN'T download porn? This is some kind of hoax.
Is this Slashdot or Star Trek? (Score:5, Funny)
Too bad he's in London (Score:5, Funny)
He says he can now follow white lines on the road
Here in California, that'd be good enough to issue him a driver license.
Re:I'm not buying it (Score:2, Funny)
Re:I'm not buying it (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Too bad he's in London (Score:5, Funny)
Follow, not snort.
Re:I wouldn't go as far as claiming he can see now (Score:5, Funny)
Re:I'm not buying it (Score:5, Funny)
Maybe he learned something from going blind the first time...
Re:The Eyeball Singularity (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Too bad he's in London (Score:3, Funny)
In South Australia, knowing where the white line is in the center of the road in relation to your car basically overqualifies him.
Next they'll be telling me that this augmentation causes him to resist the urge to accelerate to fill the gap when I indicate to change lanes.
Insanity I tell you, insanity.
REEEEEPOOOO MAAAAANNN (Score:1, Funny)
He'd better be careful about when they come to reposess when he can't make the payments.
Re:I'm not buying it (Score:2, Funny)
Ono-Sendai, or Zeiss? (Score:3, Funny)
So was it the really good Swiss lenses, or the Japanese biotech ones that need to be replaced before your optic nerve rots?
Re:I'm not buying it (Score:3, Funny)
Actually I lived with a blind guy who loved porn. Really. I never knew this until I met him, but he had tons of text porn that his computer would read to him at incredible speeds. sounded incredibly funny to hear a computer talking dirty in a voice approximating chipmunk speed, but it was pretty hot to him, I guess.
Re:I'm not buying it (Score:5, Funny)
I could imagine it now, a blind person moving their fingers across the screen, saying "There are two girls and a cup AARRGH AARRGH AARRGH AARRGH!!!"
Re:73 years old? (Score:5, Funny)
What other forms of blindness it might be useful for remains to be seen.
Tell me you meant that in the form of a pun... please!
Re:Then again (Score:3, Funny)
Re:The Eyeball Singularity (Score:3, Funny)
You have to stare into Putin's eyes for that.
Re:When i see things like this... (Score:5, Funny)
Take a picture from a camera. convert it to greyscale. Shrink it down to 8x8. Then expand it to fill your entire field of vision.
So if you see this [tinypic.com] then he see this. [tinypic.com]
Perhaps its a blessing afterall.
Re:Is this Slashdot or Star Trek? (Score:2, Funny)
I, for one, salute our new bionic overlords
Re:Ono-Sendai, or Zeiss? (Score:3, Funny)
it's only good for 4 years.
Re:Then again (Score:5, Funny)
Re:The Eyeball Singularity (Score:2, Funny)
It's a date.
Re:Ono-Sendai, or Zeiss? (Score:2, Funny)