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This is amazing! I have not finished reading it, but I wonder whether they are already thinking about human augmentation. I have average vision, but would love

This is amazing! I have not finished reading it, but I wonder whether they are already thinking about human augmentation. I have average vision, but would love to be able to see infrared and UV thanks to an implant.

kiba 6y ago
I love the idea, but there may be privacy implications. It reminded me of learning about cameras that can accidentally see through clothes that manufacturer had to to recall to remove.
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ampdepolymerase 6y ago
You already can (if you are willing to be a clinical trial guinea pig). There are nanoparticle eye drops that enables that.
- krastanov 6y ago
  Could you elaborate or give some links?
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  - mrkstu 6y ago
    An article about it working in mice: https://newatlas.com/nanoparticle-near-infrared-vision/58686/ https://newatlas.com/nanoparticle-near-infrared-vision/58686... Assume that they are now doing human trials.
    - teraflop 6y ago
      Probably worth mentioning that although the headline of that article refers to "eye drops", the sources that it cites say that the testing was actually done with an injection into the retina itself.
      - LASR 6y ago
        Needles in the eye for XRay vision? Hmm.
wongarsu 6y ago
We are still a good way off replicating the resolution of the human eye in an implant, and generally we have a hard time matching the impressive dynamic range of our eyes. Give it another 20 years. Until then something that converts infrared and UV to the visible range is a lot more reachable (whether that's an implant like an intraocular lens, simple contact lenses, or just eye drops)