On Wednesday, August 21, 2002, at 08:35 , Warden wrote:
> You know... I think there was a slashdot article recently on a similar
> type
> of procedeure. The patient, whom had been blinded in some sort of
> accident,
> could see what the computer interpreted, but if it wasn't used exactly
> right, the guy goes into siezures, then shock. Sure wouldn't want to be
> one
> of the first to get one of these.
That one sounds like it has more potential once it's better developed and
some more bugs have been worked out. It's working better than the other
systems but not up for trials. The patient has to travel to Spain to have
the device implanted and it's one of those no guarantee type things. For
more than $100k and with the problems it has it's quite a risk in itself.
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/08/14/1921239&mode=thread&tid=126
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/10.09/vision.html
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