It's almost here:
http://health.discovery.com/convergence/medicine/hardware/hardware.html
(Edited by Murphy at 7:25 pm on June 17, 2002)
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It's almost here:
http://health.discovery.com/convergence/medicine/hardware/hardware.html
(Edited by Murphy at 7:25 pm on June 17, 2002)
ooo i saw a whole piece on that on TV... interesting, the blind man could drive! drive i tells ye!
*looks on in awe*
Wow ... the detail in this article really made me realize were actually living the history.
I'M SITTING ACROSS FROM A BLIND MAN � CALL HIM PATIENT Alpha � at a long table in a windowless conference room in New York. On one end of the table there's an old television and a VCR. On the other end are a couple of laptops. They're connected by wires to a pair of homemade signal processors housed in unadorned gunmetal-gray boxes, each no bigger than a loaf of bread. In the corner stands a plastic ficus tree, and beyond that, against the far wall, a crowded bookshelf. Otherwise, the walls are white and bare. When the world's first bionic eye is turned on, this is what Patient Alpha will see. Read on for more.
