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Chip Implants - The Good
« on: August 21, 2012, 02:38:13 pm »
We all remember how StarTrek treated the Blind....

Google’s smart glasses could make augmented reality mainstream

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Tech-savvy consumers who constantly pine for real-life gadgets that mimic the impossible ones wielded nonchalantly in sci-fi flicks, listen up. According to recent gossip, Google is busy developing a sleek pair of futuristic glasses that displays GPS info, sports a built-in camera and runs on Android. Eat your heart out, Geordi La Forge.



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The New York Times reports that the high-tech, high-end glasses could be available later this year and will boast features familiar to anyone who owns a smartphone:

    The people familiar with the Google glasses said they would be Android-based, and will include a small screen that will sit a few inches from someone’s eye. They will also have a 3G or 4G data connection and a number of sensors including motion and GPS.

    The glasses will have a low-resolution built-in camera that will be able to monitor the world in real time and overlay information about locations, surrounding buildings and friends who might be nearby, according to the Google employees.

Early adopters should start saving up now – or at least make sure they’re extra nice in time for the holidays. The futuristic goggles could cost upward of $600. Those more worried about how they’ll look while wearing them can take solace in the fact they may, at least according to 9to5google editor Seth Weintraub, mimic this design.

Google’s smart glasses could make augmented reality mainstream

Google to Sell Heads-Up Display Glasses by Year’s End

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People who constantly reach into a pocket to check a smartphone for bits of information will soon have another option: a pair of Google-made glasses that will be able to stream information to the wearer’s eyeballs in real time.

According to several Google employees familiar with the project who asked not to be named, the glasses will go on sale to the public by the end of the year. These people said they are expected “to cost around the price of current smartphones,” or $250 to $600.

The people familiar with the Google glasses said they would be Android-based, and will include a small screen that will sit a few inches from someone’s eye. They will also have a 3G or 4G data connection and a number of sensors including motion and GPS.

A Google spokesman declined to comment on the project.

Google X’s wearable technology isn’t an iPod Nano, but rather a heads up display (glasses)

HUD Google Glasses are real and they are coming soon

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Our tipster has now seen a prototype and said it looks something like Oakley Thumps (below). These glasses, we heard, have a front-facing camera used to gather information and could aid in augmented reality apps. It will also take pictures. The spied prototype has a flash —perhaps for help at night, or maybe it is just a way to take better photos. The camera is extremely small and likely only a few megapixels.



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Re: Chip Implants - The Good
« Reply #1 on: August 21, 2012, 02:40:09 pm »

Sony OLED VR goggles make you look like Geordi La Forge from Star Trek



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Sony recently demonstrated a virtual reality headset that they have been working on. A pair of futuristic looking glasses that pack two tiny OLED screens for you to experience HD video (1280 x 720) with integrated headphones that simulate high quality 5.1 channel surround sound. The two screens work together to give you an immersive 3D experience by presenting each eye with a slightly different image. Besides making you look like a cast member from Star Trek: The Next Generation, it will block out everything around you (obviously) so besides what you see in front of you and what’s pumping through the ear phone speakers. You won’t be aware of your surroundings (well almost completely because you still have your sense of smell and touch) so it will feel like you are in a totally different reality. Paired up with a PlayStation Move, I think this device will bring gaming to the next level. We can’t wait.

Sony OLED VR goggles make you look like Geordi La Forge from Star Trek

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Re: Chip Implants - The Good
« Reply #2 on: August 21, 2012, 02:54:25 pm »
Okay back to the Chip Implant   ;D

Only One Girl on the Planet Has THIS Chip Implant Installed



Bionic eyes activate! Microchip gives sight to the blind
May 3, 2012 By Jeffrey Van Camp



A new 'bionic eye' microchip has been implanted in the eyes of two blind British men, giving them some vision for the first time in decades.

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t looks like Geordi LaForge’s vision visor is already outdated. A tiny 3mm microchip has given vision back to the blind. Scientists and doctors in Oxford implanted a new “bionic eye” microchip in the eyes of two blind individuals last month during a grueling eight-hour operation. The chips were placed in the back of the eyes and connected with electrodes. Weeks later, both individuals — Chris James and Robin Millar — have regained ‘useful vision’ and are well on their way to recognizing faces and seeing once again, reports Sky News.

“Since switching on the device I am able to detect light and distinguish the outlines of certain objects which is an encouraging sign,” said James. “I have even dreamt in very vivid colour for the first time in 25 years so a part of my brain which had gone to sleep has woken up! I feel this is incredibly promising for future research and I’m happy to be contributing to this legacy.”

Both patients, previously blind, were able to immediately detect light after the chip/sensor (which isn’t entirely unlike the cameras in in your smartphone) was turned on, as well as detect white objects in a dark background. Their eyes have been improving since. Though they’ll never regain color vision, the chip (designed by a company called Retina Implant) is fitted with 1,500 pixels which pick up light and transmit it to the brain. It gives patients a ”field of vision is limited to a window the size of a CD case held at arm’s length.”



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“I’ve always had that thought that one day I would be able to see again,” said James. ”This is not a cure, but it may put the world into some perspective. It’ll give me some imagery rather than just a black world.”

Despite its current limitations, the procedure is a step forward. Sadly, it will not help everyone who has gone blind; at least not yet. It’s currently designed specifically for those afflicted with retinitis pigmentosa, which is a condition that affects one in every 3,000 to 4,000 people. However, in the future, it could restore site to blind individuals with macular degeneration as well.

James said that he decided to participate to show the promise of this technology to help improve the lives of future kids and adults who are blind. A video interview with Chris James can be found at Sky News.

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« Reply #3 on: August 21, 2012, 03:04:02 pm »
Digital Bionic Eye Lets Blind Man See Again

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By Thomas Moore, health and science correspondent

A blind man has had a bionic eye implant that gives him rudimentary vision.

Chris James, who had been totally blind for more than 20 years, is the first British patient to be fitted with a digital chip similar to those used in mobile phone cameras.

Sky News was present during the operation and, later, when the chip was switched on.

Chris is able to see a rough outline of simple shapes.

Doctors believe that in time - as his brain 'learns' to see again - he could recognise faces.

"I've always had that thought that one day I would be able to see again," he said.

"This is not a cure, but it may put the world into some perspective.

"It'll give me some imagery rather than just a black world."

Surgeons at Oxford's John Radcliffe Hospital and King's College Hospital in London are testing the implant in a clinical trial of up to 12 patients with retinitis pigmentosa.

The inherited eye disease destroys the retina - the 'seeing' part of the eye that is equivalent to a film in an old camera.

Around 25,000 families in Britain are affected by the condition, for which there is no treatment.

Surgeons in Oxford fitted the chip beneath Chris' retina in a complex eight-hour operation.

Professor Robert MacLaren, professor of ophthalmology at the University of Oxford, said the success of surgery was a "great relief".

"Chris is doing extremely well," he said.

"With the first operation, with the new technology and the complexity of everything, we are all absolutely delighted with the result."

A second patient has since been fitted with the chip and is also responding well.

The sensor, designed by the company Retina Implant, is just 3mm square and packed with 1,500 pixels.

Light falling on the pixels is converted into an electrical signal that is picked up by nerves and transmitted to the visual processing region of the brain.

Patients see a grainy, black and white image.

And because the chip only covers a small part of the retina, their field of view is limited to a window the size of a CD case held at arm's length.

But, because Chris has been blind for so long, his brain will take weeks to make sense of the images.

Although he can see the curve of a plate, he does not see the whole circle.

Professor MacLaren said: "The image is fragmented.

"A circle may be perceived as two half circles, or even four quadrants, perhaps in different parts of space. What the brain needs to learn to do is put that back into one single object.

"It is repeating in many ways what we all did when we learned to see in early childhood."

Professor MacLaren said future generations of the chip are likely to be bigger, to widen the field of view, and have greater resolution.

The technology could be a cost-effective alternative to guide dogs, which cost £50,000 to £75,000 to train.

The chip is likely to be suitable for several hundred patients with retinitis pigmentosa.

In future it could be used to restore sight in patients with macular degeneration, a common disease in the over-65s.

Digital Bionic Eye Lets Blind Man See Again

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