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The company Ocumetics created an implantable device, years ago, that can perfect your vision (and make it even better). It has been in clinical trials for a couple years and will be available in Europe and the US once final trials are completed. The cost is looking like it'll be 3,200$ per eye. Here's an older pic of the thing:  Here's the company's main website: http://ocumetics.com/ And here's a short statement on what the bionic lens is: quote:For a half century, ophthalmic surgeons have envisioned an intraocular lens capable of restoring eyesight at all distances. OcumeticsTM Technology Corporation was founded to achieve this goal. Employing state-of-the art materials and production techniques, OcumeticsTM Technology Corporation is in the process of developing a highly advanced intraocular lens, one that is capable of restoring clear vision at all distances, without glasses or contact lenses, and without the visual quality problems that have plagued current accommodative and multifocal intraocular lens designs. It seems like its design has been updated due to things found in the current round of clinical tests and will mean a longer wait before regulatory agencies clear it for regular consumers. So what say you goons? Would you pay 7,000 dollars for perfect vision at all distances for life? I'm thinking I'll wait a couple years, after it's released, to see how it's working out for people.
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Feb 20, 2018 01:51
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Cyborgs aren't really people hth
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Feb 20, 2018 01:53
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Holding out for the augmented reality version. I'm poor tho so I'll take the ad-supported version.
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Feb 20, 2018 01:56
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I Am Legend remake looking good
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Feb 20, 2018 02:03
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ill stick with my glasses, im a huge moron so i need them to look like im smart
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Feb 20, 2018 02:11
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I don't look at anything besides screens that are within 2 feet of me so I think I'm good
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Feb 20, 2018 02:14
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I'm sticking with glasses because my hair is so blonde my eyebrows are basically invisible so I need something to create a break between my forehead and the rest of my face.
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Feb 20, 2018 02:22
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Cantaloupe posted:I don't look at anything besides screens that are within 2 feet of me so I think I'm good Makes a lot of sense.
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Feb 20, 2018 02:43
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Call me when I can pipe pornos directly into my optic nerve.
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Feb 20, 2018 02:47
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weg posted:Call me when I can pipe pornos directly into my optic nerve. Aren't we doing that all the time right now?
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Feb 20, 2018 03:00
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If it's intra-occular, doesn't that put it inside the eye? I've seen enough sketchy kickstarter poo poo to know that I don't want any of those Herbert West fuckers going near my eye with some implant they scratched together in some San Fernando valley industrial park. ...still a neat idea, but it's basically just a modified variant of the IOL stuff that they implant after cataract surgery.
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Feb 20, 2018 03:16
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This gonna gently caress up my night vision like LASIK apparently will? Because if so gently caress that.
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Feb 20, 2018 03:17
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Rad-daddio posted:If it's intra-occular, doesn't that put it inside the eye? Yeah, I found out about it in an older article (3 or 4 years old) and it goes in your eye. They say you can't get it if you've had your lens removed. Somehow it goes on your lens and the muscles that move your lens also move the device. Or I should say focus it.
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Feb 20, 2018 03:24
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I leave my contacts in until they start to bother me, which usually ends up being 12-18 months. My optometrist says my eyes are fine. I'd have to live to be many hundreds of years old for this to make sense economically
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Feb 20, 2018 03:27
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I'll just go quietly blind in a corn shed like god intended
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Feb 20, 2018 03:27
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No, I like being able to take off my glasses & relax my eyes.
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Feb 20, 2018 03:35
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i have perfect vision so i dont give a gently caress op.
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Feb 20, 2018 03:36
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I have phobias about things touching my eyes so I'll just wear glasses unless it gets real bad and they can do it to me while I'm unconscious.
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Feb 20, 2018 03:43
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I might do this... One thing that I never thought about until I got over 40 was presbyopia. (This is going to happen to most everyone at some point... if it hasn't happened to you by 40 it will most certainly happen before 50.) I just sort of gradually noticed that I needed to take my glasses off to read anything close up. If I could regain the ability to focus at different distances with this it might be worth it. I guess my main concern would be as I continue to age, would this lens stay in place and continue to work, or might it move or get hosed up or something and blind me? :\
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Feb 20, 2018 03:47
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Maldoror posted:I might do this... I'm late 30's and it hasn't happened yet. I wonder, if it works as billed, how it would help long distance shooters. I shoot competition with iron sights at targets 600 yards away and it's always been extremely difficult to even see a target that far away. I wonder if this would change shooting sports. Or any sport that required detailed long range vision.
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Feb 20, 2018 03:51
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My dad started getting eye surguries as they came up with new ones and take my word for it being on the cutting edge of eyeball technology is loving dumb as hell. Hes had like 20 loving surguries and he never really had bad eyesight to begin with. Just constantly trying to fix the last thing they hosed up and as far as i can tell eyeball doctors dont have a loving clue what they are doing.
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Feb 20, 2018 04:24
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i got astigmatism in my one eye but i'll never get lasik or PRK or whatever the other ones are, i always find it funny when most of the guys doing the surgery wear glasses and won't get it done there was a co-worker i had a while back who got his eyes hosed from one of the surgeries, he couldn't use his tear ducts to moisten his eyes or whatever so had to use drops all day every day for the rest of his life lmbo
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Feb 20, 2018 04:26
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DogonCrook posted:My dad started getting eye surguries as they came up with new ones and take my word for it being on the cutting edge of eyeball technology is loving dumb as hell. Hes had like 20 loving surguries and he never really had bad eyesight to begin with. Just constantly trying to fix the last thing they hosed up and as far as i can tell eyeball doctors dont have a loving clue what they are doing. Agreed. I'm just now getting on board with this new-fangled penicillin thing.
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Feb 20, 2018 04:27
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spacetoaster posted:Agreed. I'm just now getting on board with this new-fangled penicillin thing. I mean im not saying lasik is bad but pre lasik eye surgury was a loving disaster and those people cannot ever be fixed until we have like digital eyeballs.
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Feb 20, 2018 04:36
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Don't need eyes to see where I'm going op
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Feb 20, 2018 04:38
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DogonCrook posted:I mean im not saying lasik is bad but pre lasik eye surgury was a loving disaster and those people cannot ever be fixed until we have like digital eyeballs. Yeah. My eyes are good right now. But cataracts runs in the family. If I'm going to eventually get surgery I might just look into this thing.
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Feb 20, 2018 04:42
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post another thread when you can finally get badass robot eyes OP until then aint nobody touchin these peepers
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Feb 20, 2018 04:43
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They said the same things about that laser poo poo and most people still need glasses after, and there was, statistically speaking, a 1% chance that your vision would end up much worse. This seems better, but still... implantable medical devices like this are the new poorly regulated gimmick to funnel more money to the medical industry.
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Feb 20, 2018 04:44
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my retinas are the problem in my case so this isn't any help wake me when they can give me the geordi treatment
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Feb 20, 2018 04:50
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DogonCrook posted:and as far as i can tell eyeball doctors dont have a loving clue what they are doing. Or just wait 20 years because I'm ok with my glasses now.
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Feb 20, 2018 06:50
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honestly im fuckin good wearing glasses and having pretty good eyesight and then putting contacts on when i do sports or outdoors or getting trashed at the bar and everything looking great if i get aging related eye problems that cause my vision to degrade ill look into lazer eyeballs
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Feb 20, 2018 06:55
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How long until I can get sweet optic blast implants
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Feb 20, 2018 07:01
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PathAsc posted:How long until I can get sweet optic blast implants
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Feb 20, 2018 07:02
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numberoneposter posted:honestly im fuckin good wearing glasses and having pretty good eyesight and then putting contacts on when i do sports or outdoors or getting trashed at the bar and everything looking great Early onset presbyopia, monovision is awesome, gently caress if I was going to wear reading glasses at 30. Apparently multifocal contacts are pretty good now so I think I might look into that at my next appointment.
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Feb 20, 2018 07:08
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Three Olives posted:Early onset presbyopia, monovision is awesome, gently caress if I was going to wear reading glasses at 30. Apparently multifocal contacts are pretty good now so I think I might look into that at my next appointment. its about -4 in each eye and thats about it id look into it too if i needed multi focal lenses contacts are easy, i mean surgerey is surgery, its invasive, dunno, i need glasses forever but until i gotta wear multifocals im just gonna rock some cool rear end frames whatever
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Feb 20, 2018 07:12
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Call me when they can cure eye floaters in a widely available and safe way. I don't give a poo poo if I have to wear glasses, I just want to be able to go out on a sunny day again without black spots and cobwebs flickering around my vision. Much worse problem IMO, you'd think they'd come up with a solution by now.
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Feb 20, 2018 07:38
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Do it. It's great.
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Feb 20, 2018 07:40
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Cnut the Great posted:Call me when they can cure eye floaters in a widely available and safe way. I don't give a poo poo if I have to wear glasses, I just want to be able to go out on a sunny day again without black spots and cobwebs flickering around my vision. Much worse problem IMO, you'd think they'd come up with a solution by now. Back my Kickstarter for my procedure to use a syringe to suck out all your dirty old vitreous humors and replace them with Crystal Pepsi, pending clinical trials
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Feb 20, 2018 08:36
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I may need that vitreous humor sucking surgery. Got some pretty annoying floaters. Don't need the lens thing though.
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numberoneposter posted:i can send a blast towards your optics any time bb Sounds intense
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