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Superhuman Vision
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Superhuman Vision
Would you get this if the cost wasnt really high?
http://www.collective-evolution.com/...ision-forever/
A new bionic eye lens currently in development would give humans 3x 20/20 vision, at any age.
The lens, named the Ocumetics Bionic Lens, was developed by Dr. Garth Webb, an optometrist in British Columbia who was looking for a way to optimize eyesight regardless of a person’s health or age.
With this remarkable lens, patients would have perfect vision, ending the need for driving glasses, progressive lenses, and contacts, all of which are set to become a dim memory as the eye-care industry is transformed, CBC reports.
Even better is the fact that people who get the lens surgically inserted will never get cataracts, because the lens replaces that of their natural eye, which inevitably decays over time.
Webb says that anyone over the age of 25 is the best candidate, because that is when the eye is fully developed.
“This is vision enhancement that the world has never seen before,” he says, “If you can just barely see the clock at 10 feet, when you get the Bionic Lens you can see the clock at 30 feet away.“
The lens, which would be custom-made, is folded like a taco in a saline-filled syringe and placed in the eye, where it unravels itself within 10 seconds.
Webb says that the surgery can be done within 8 minutes and immediately corrects a patient’s vision.
The project has been in the works for the last eight years, Webb told CBC, costing about $3 million in research and development fees, along with the acquisition of international patents and the securing of a biomedical manufacturing facility in Delta, B.C.
A new bionic eye lens currently in development would give humans 3x 20/20 vision, at any age.
http://www.collective-evolution.com/...ision-forever/
A new bionic eye lens currently in development would give humans 3x 20/20 vision, at any age.
The lens, named the Ocumetics Bionic Lens, was developed by Dr. Garth Webb, an optometrist in British Columbia who was looking for a way to optimize eyesight regardless of a person’s health or age.
With this remarkable lens, patients would have perfect vision, ending the need for driving glasses, progressive lenses, and contacts, all of which are set to become a dim memory as the eye-care industry is transformed, CBC reports.
Even better is the fact that people who get the lens surgically inserted will never get cataracts, because the lens replaces that of their natural eye, which inevitably decays over time.
Webb says that anyone over the age of 25 is the best candidate, because that is when the eye is fully developed.
“This is vision enhancement that the world has never seen before,” he says, “If you can just barely see the clock at 10 feet, when you get the Bionic Lens you can see the clock at 30 feet away.“
The lens, which would be custom-made, is folded like a taco in a saline-filled syringe and placed in the eye, where it unravels itself within 10 seconds.
Webb says that the surgery can be done within 8 minutes and immediately corrects a patient’s vision.
The project has been in the works for the last eight years, Webb told CBC, costing about $3 million in research and development fees, along with the acquisition of international patents and the securing of a biomedical manufacturing facility in Delta, B.C.
A new bionic eye lens currently in development would give humans 3x 20/20 vision, at any age.
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It's funny what happens when you run a google search. "Ocumetics" got a bunch of tabloid sites. "Lens implant" got legit medical websites.
Hint: if it sounds an awful f*cking lot like solid, existing technology, but is being passed off as new, and is clearly not even a single moving part but is being billed as "bionic"...
... you might not want to let those people touch your precious eyeballs, or your wallet.
Hint: if it sounds an awful f*cking lot like solid, existing technology, but is being passed off as new, and is clearly not even a single moving part but is being billed as "bionic"...
... you might not want to let those people touch your precious eyeballs, or your wallet.
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Cant be any worst than laser eye surgery. When that first was announced, people were like...."OMG WTF BBQ....YOU WANT TO SHOOT A LASER INTO MY EYEBALL!??!!"
Now it's perfected and a ridiculous amount of people get it all the time. I personally know at least 6 or 7 people who have done it in the last 3 months, and they have beyond perfect vision (20/15 or something like that). So if this bionic eye does happen, give it a few years and I bet it will be just as common and safe as laser eye surgery.
Now it's perfected and a ridiculous amount of people get it all the time. I personally know at least 6 or 7 people who have done it in the last 3 months, and they have beyond perfect vision (20/15 or something like that). So if this bionic eye does happen, give it a few years and I bet it will be just as common and safe as laser eye surgery.
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There's a small (actually huge) different between a blade-less process, basically getting artifacts burnt off your lens, and getting a needle in the soft tissue of your damn eye. I don't like tetanus shots but it's a necessary evil when working on cars, especially Toyotas. I'm not about to submit arguably the 2nd most tender body part to that same torture.
Please see the Pope of Nope.
Gimme those warm photons any day of the week.
Gimme those warm photons any day of the week.