Robo Eye

Stanford has made the first step towards a true humanbot. The eye implant can give someone with 20/400 vision (technically blind) as high as 20/80 vision. Now, this doesn't mean they are going to read one of the mini-bibles, but it is a huge improvement. It's a 3mm wide chip. Now I am not a rocket scientist, nor an eye scientist. So I can't say exactly how it works. But this New Scientist article might help. It sounds like goggles the subject wears send video images straight to the chip which is implanted near the retina. I wonder what would happen if you took the goggles and put them on the back of your head? Would you have eyes in the back of your head? Cliché I know, but I had to go there.

posted by: DigiDave