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[Slightly Wonky Robob]

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A blind man who thought he would never be able to read again has had his vision partially restored after being fitted with a 'bionic' eye.

Peter Lane, 51, is one of the first people in the world to have electronic receivers implanted into his eye which send signals mounted in a pair of glasses to the brain.

The technology has allowed Mr Lane, from Manchester, to see the outline of objects, such as doorways and furniture, and to read letters through a series of dots of lights for the first time in almost 30 years.

You can read more here. It's pretty impressive stuff! :o

[Pav:3d]

Very inspiring, great to read about stuff like this

[CJ]

This is a giant step in the history of science.
Now let's hope this will be accessible to every blind person, and not only the rich guys...

[CodeCat]

Wanananananana

[Destiny]

Code is drunk!

But yeah, this is awesome stuff...though it must be quite problematic, since cops like to question people wearing sunglasses everywhere.

[CodeCat]

Not drunk. It was a reference to the 6 million dollar man, quoting the scout from TF2.

[Pav:3d]

How silly of us not to get it!

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[Ion Cannon!]

Aside from your awful reference. Thats really good news. They always talk about progress this and progress that, but its good to see some physical proof.

[Libains]

Good start, but I'd rather stem cell research over bionics, it's a far more valuable area of medicine :(

[TheDR]

AJ, on 1 Dec 2009, 0:36, said:

Good start, but I'd rather stem cell research over bionics, it's a far more valuable area of medicine :(

So would i, it has far more potential to bring positive results.
But bionics is still quite awesome, we should have them both

[deltaepsilon]

This is really good to hear. Not to mention that in the future it could go even further (x-ray vision )

[Chyros]

Cool article, that's a nice development .

[Dauth]

Swear I saw this story a couple of months ago on the BBC. good news either way though.

[Brad]

I think I might have aswell Dauth, or at least something simliar.
Anyway.

This is really good news towards a good area of science, though I agree with the steam cell talk above me.
Unfortunatly, because of the large amount of people who disagree with it, its becomming harder and harder for scientists to get a good amount of specimins.
High controversial and all that.

[Libains]

Indeed, do recall ths from the Beeb a few months back, so much so that:

http://news.bbc.co.u...lth/7919645.stm

Different bloke, same procedure. It's nice, and obviously one of the best areas in which to apply bionics. However, I maintain that stem cell would be a better thing to research more, but the ethical implications, as Brad mentions, are ridiculous. I doubt I'll ever see them used properly in my lifetime, but I hope that there is hope for future generations.