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    BrainPort Device Lets The Blind Use Their Taste Buds To See

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    Image of ParryLost ParryLost
    08/16/09

    In reply to BrainPort Device Lets The Blind Use Their Taste Buds To See
    That's really awesome news. It's amazing how technology for helping the visually impaired is advancing. The eyes (and related nerves) are so complicated and fragile... it's really exciting that we're learning how (to some still-limited degree) replace them if they are beyond repair.

    ... And also it makes all those robot kissing scenes in "Record of a Yokohama Shopping Trip" make more sense. :P There was even a camera that had a bit that fit into the android main character's mouth to transfer information, and it looked almost exactly like that photo, sans the glasses... :)
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    Image of Klebert L. Hall Klebert L. Hall
    08/16/09

    In reply to BrainPort Device Lets The Blind Use Their Taste Buds To See
    That's really odd...
    .
    BTW, didn't Lord John Worfin do something eerily similar in Buckaroo Banzai?
    -Kle.
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    Image of XerxesQados XerxesQados
    08/16/09

    In reply to BrainPort Device Lets The Blind Use Their Taste Buds To See
    Taste the rainbow?
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    Image of gorehound gorehound
    08/16/09

    In reply to BrainPort Device Lets The Blind Use Their Taste Buds To See
    I think it is great that our technology might just be able to enable folks to see who are blind.And there are other devices that help other kinds of disabilities.
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    Image of noisy doll noisy doll
    08/15/09

    In reply to BrainPort Device Lets The Blind Use Their Taste Buds To See
    Does this only work for people who had vision at some point in their lives and can remember that? Or is it supposed to give sight to patients for the first time in their lives?
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    Image of Indigen Indigen
    08/15/09

    In reply to BrainPort Device Lets The Blind Use Their Taste Buds To See
    Listen... do you smell something?
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    Image of OW-Holmes:Bringer of Fear OW-Holmes:Bringer of Fear
    08/15/09

    @Indigen: That girl looks delicious.
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    Image of I Think We're Property I Think We're Property
    08/15/09

    In reply to BrainPort Device Lets The Blind Use Their Taste Buds To See
    Wow, I don't believe it.

    No, literally, I'm not sure I believe it. Pics or didn't happen, so they say.

    On the other hand, it does jive with one established brain behavior- the brain seems to be surprisingly receptive to having some of its nerves repurposed, proving its amazing plasticity by adapting to unconventional interfaces. Its just that most of the previous examples have involved surgical interfaces with the nerves, instead of just external stimulation. I guess this might just go to show that, functionally, there's no difference between direct and external stimulation.
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    Image of badmotherfucker badmotherfucker
    08/15/09

    @I Think We're Property: My left hand concurs. Did I just say that out loud?
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    Image of The Curse of Millhaven The Curse of Millhaven
    08/15/09

    In reply to BrainPort Device Lets The Blind Use Their Taste Buds To See
    If it works and can be used for long periods, I think that I would prefer an invasive implant to having an electrode hanging out of my mouth. Even so, it's a very tasty piece of tech.
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    Image of Jeriba Jeriba
    08/15/09

    @The Curse of Millhaven: Hopefully they would be able to come up with a less intrusive version, like a wireless model that can be stuck to the tongue without the big cord hanging out.
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    Image of Tomb: R.O.A.C.H. Tomb: R.O.A.C.H.
    08/15/09

    In reply to BrainPort Device Lets The Blind Use Their Taste Buds To See
    I guess they are gonna have to use there eyes as tungs. Imagen talking with your eyes. Its already a mouth looking thing so..
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    Image of North Star North Star
    08/15/09

    @Tomb: R.O.A.C.H.: That would be nigh impossible. The eye and mouth don't share analogous parts, and many of the parts the eye doesn't have (some sort of tongue, larynx, etc.) are crucial to talking.

    That said, if you manage to do, that would be many kinds of awesome.
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    Image of twophrasebark twophrasebark
    07/22/09

    In reply to Tired Of Eye Drops? Try These Drug-Dispensing Contact Lenses
    This is a seriously great idea. I find that wearing contact lenses inevitably means eye infections no matter how careful I am or how clean my lens are.

    So why not build some stuff directly into the lenses that fights off eye infections? How awesome would that be?
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    Image of Asha L Kydd Asha L Kydd
    07/21/09

    In reply to Tired Of Eye Drops? Try These Drug-Dispensing Contact Lenses
    Having a eye condition that requires specialized eye drops (Iritis), I can completely appreciate this idea.
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    Image of frankenstoen frankenstoen
    07/21/09

    In reply to Tired Of Eye Drops? Try These Drug-Dispensing Contact Lenses
    The only thing that freaks me out more than putting eyedrops in my eyes is putting contact lenses in them.
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    Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H. promoted this comment frankenstoen was starred frankenstoen was unstarred
    Image of Mischif Mischif
    07/21/09

    @frankenstoen: Glad someone else feels the same way; the feeling of putting something in (or to be more precise, on) me keeps me wearing glasses (and the fact that they make me look nerd-sessi.)
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    Image of Chip Overclock Chip Overclock
    07/22/09

    @frankenstoen: It's funny what people are squeamish about. Mrs. Overclock (a.k.a. Dr. Overclock, Medicine Woman) puts in her contacts daily, but the thought of touching her eye with her finger sans contact lens freaks her out. When she drove me to the clinic for my LASIK surgery, they asked her if she wanted to watch (something I would totally have done had the circumstances been reversed) and she had to leave. She couldn't bear to be in the same _building_. She went shopping and came back to pick me up. This is a woman who did an E.R. turn in her medical residency. Go figure.
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    Image of Chip Overclock Chip Overclock
    07/22/09

    @Chip Overclock: BTW, for those eye surgeons who are into SF: you really should offer a DVD of the procedure for the patient to buy. I would have paid good money for it.
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    Image of Mount_Prion Mount_Prion
    07/21/09

    In reply to Tired Of Eye Drops? Try These Drug-Dispensing Contact Lenses
    Oh, how I envy the goat this is being tested on.
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    Image of twophrasebark twophrasebark
    07/22/09

    @Mount_Prion:

    That is the great sentence ever?

    It's almost as good as "These pretzels are making me thirsty."
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    Image of twophrasebark twophrasebark
    07/22/09

    @Mount_Prion:

    Better maybe?
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    Image of Gann Gann
    06/25/09

    In reply to Chemical Nose Can "Smell" Cancer
    They need to develop a pocket-sized STD version of this to discreetly 'sniff' that cute but slightly skanky looking girl at the bar.
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    Image of lightninglouie lightninglouie
    04/23/09

    In reply to Your iPhone Could Become A Medical Tricorder
    I'll be overjoyed if they call the medical apps Feinbergs.


    Also, it should totally make a wee-wee-wee-wee noise, just because.

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