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They have this implant that allows blind people to see. What they do is implant electrodes in your brain, and a sensor in the eye sends signals to the electrodes to stimulate the brain and create pictures. It's still experimental but it works.
What if we implanted the sensors on fingertips? I don't
know why, but I think it would be awesome to have eyes on my fingers.
Easier to look behind furniture...
When you're fumbling behind something trying to grab a dropped object that you can't locate because you can't see it....
Peek around corners without people seeing you....
The possibilities are endless.
Of course, the technology would have to improve a bit to be as good as regular sight, but as I said, it's still in development. For those people that don't want implants in their fingertips, they can get a glove with the sensor.
http://www-personal...bs/smseeinghand.jpg
[half, Feb 02 2005]
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You'd never pick your nose or scratch yourself again. |
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I'm pretty sure Orson Scott Card did this story, back in the 1970s. It was an infestation with an alien lifeform, that hooked itself into the host's nervous system. |
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It was published in Omni magazine. |
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I think I've read all of Card's books. I don't remember that. |
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Wow, in poker you could see all the cards as you were dealing. But, playing the piano or typing would be sheer torture. |
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One doesn't use sight for playing the piano. Well, those for who it is innately imprinted, don't. |
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Hmmm, trying to find the story. Maybe not Card, but certainly Omni. 20+ years on, now. |
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Back in my auto mechanic days I always wished for this when I was working under dashboards.....but, ah, the exquisite agony when you slammed your finger in a door. |
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It's all good fun until somebody gets an eye put out. |
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