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Slight nitpick about HN title: This isn't the world's first bionic eye. The article was surprisingly good about not making this assertion: Australia's first bi
by beambot 14y ago
Slight nitpick about HN title: This isn't the world's first bionic eye. The article was surprisingly good about not making this assertion: Australia's first bionic eye seeing shapes and recipient of the first bionic eye developed in Victoria. Sorry... it just always bothers me when people claim "firsts" without sufficient research or qualifications (ie hedging) -- it tends to marginalize others' groundwork... "shoulders of giants" and all that.
- rrreese 14y agoI came here to write the same thing, bionic eyes have been in testing for well over a decade now. More can be read about the various attempts here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_prosthesis http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_prosthesis