http://www.metafilter.com/tags/six-million-dollar-man Posts tagged with 'six-million-dollar-man' at MetaFilter. Tue, 01 May 2007 12:00:04 -0800 Tue, 01 May 2007 12:00:04 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/60786/Apparently%2Dwe%2Dcan%2Drebuild%2Dhim <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/6608265.stm">Doctors in London have made the world's first attempt to treat a retinal degeneration disorder using gene therapy.</a> <em>"The researchers aim to restore the activity in these cells and therefore restore vision by implanting healthy copies of the key gene into the RPE at the back of the eye.</em> In other optical news, wired.com is leading with a piece about <a href="http://www.wired.com/gadgets/miscellaneous/news/2007/05/binoculars">"Luke 's Binoculars" (yes, as in Skywalker)</a> - a gadget that is meant to provide soldiers with a 120-degree field of view and allow him/her to be able to spot moving vehicles as far as 10 kilometers away by integrating EEG electrodes that monitor the wearer's neural signals. <a href="http://www.wired.com/gadgets/miscellaneous/multimedia/2007/04/gallery_binoculars">CTTWS, I presume?</a> tag:metafilter.com,2007:site.60786 Tue, 01 May 2007 12:00:04 -0800 darpa eeg eyes gene six-million-dollar-man therapy vision chuckdarwin