...but I thought this technology is supposed to appear only hundreds of years from now!<p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geordi_La_Forge" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geordi_La_Forge</a>
This is awesome. But I wonder what it must be like to be able to see, even with your eyes closed.<p>What I mean is, I imagine that it may be a bit overwhelming to a new user to suddenly be getting visual input. A simple solution would be adding a blink sensor to the glasses. When the wearer closes her eyes for longer than just a blink, shut off the video.<p>Seems like an intuitive UI, since the instinctive thing to do with too much visual input is the shut your eyes. Even if you're blind I imagine.
I'll save my full accolades for when I hear about the results of the first human trial, but I think this is an amazing idea and I really hope it works how they expect. More importantly, we are now one step closer to turning me into Robocop.
A person receiving this implant will be able to receive more than just visual input from the world. He could receive input from the internet, or a virtual reality world. I imagine this is the first step of us moving to the net.
What a brilliant gift - aiming to give sight to the blind. It would be wonderful if it could stay out of commercial hands and be distributed as far as possible.
They've been working on this for a while in different forms. It's awesome to see them at or near a point where it can be mass produced instead of experimental. I'm excited for it, and where the future could carry it forward: color vision, higher resolution, and so on. It's very exciting :)