my collague black man Jimmy, have been hurt in the eyes, almost blind, he spent almost 20000 dollars in his treatment, no insurance and no any compensation on this incident, he have to rest for four weeks, before he can come back to his work, no income during this term.

Neuralink is planning its first Blindsight implant later this year, aiming to restore limited vision even for people who have lost both eyes, their optic nerve, or were born blind Over time, it could potentially go beyond that and offer enhanced or even superhuman vision

Elon Musk is right here. So many people are unaware of @neuralink, and how it’s going to change the lives of so many. In a new interview this morning: "Neuralink is creating a cybernetic interface to AI from your brain. It has enabled people who have completely lost their brain-body connection to speak again (phone, computer). We believe it will enable people to walk again. Let’s say someone had a severe spinal injury, you can transmit those signals to a second neural implant, and reanimate the body so people can use their limbs. We think at some point, live a normal life by effectively bridging the signals from the brain to past the point in the spine where the damage has occurred. Later this year, we expect to do our first implant for Blindsight. Where even if someone has lost both eyes, or the optic nerve, or perhaps if they were blind at birth, it will give them initially limited vision, but over time, very precise vision. Perphaps Superhuman." We should be talking about this more.

Wink your right eye. Boom — instant zoom. Sounds like sci-fi. It's not. Scientists at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology have built a contact lens that magnifies your vision by nearly 3x. Yes, the actual world around you. Zoomed in. On demand. Here's the wild part. The lens is just 1.55mm thick. Tucked inside it is a ring of microscopic aluminium mirrors that bounce light around and blow up whatever you're staring at by 2.8 times. Pair it with smart glasses and the system can tell the difference between a regular blink and a deliberate wink. Wink right? Zoom in. Wink left? Snap back to normal. The tech wasn't even built for eyes at first. DARPA funded it as ultra-thin cameras for military drones. Then someone had the bright idea to flip the script and turn it into a vision aid for people losing their sight to age-related macular degeneration, the leading cause of vision loss in adults over 50. Now imagine reading a street sign three blocks away. Or spotting craters on the moon without a telescope. Your eyeballs just got an upgrade. Source: Science (AAAS)

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