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BETTER, FASTER, STRONGER

· Friday, July 18, 2003 · 1 comment

Fresh off Rob “Acidman” Smith’s bionic implant, we learn that bionic eyes will soon become a reality. I already find lasik surgery quite amazing; this is several orders of magnitude more impressive. Of course, science is still thirty years behind television on this one.

(Hat tip: Kathy Kinsley)

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  1. Dean's World says:
    Saturday, July 19, 2003 at 04:40

    Bionic Eyes
    It’s pretty unbelievable where medical technology is heading. They’re increasingly able to fix deafness with implants, and now curing blindness the same way is on…

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