I'll be your eyes on the ground.

/hot like most of Africa

bighasbeen: I'll be your eyes on the ground.

I haven't even thought about that movie in so long.

[opens up Netflix que]

Thanks!

I was watching this on Ted (new window) -- pretty cool.

Schrodinger's Petting Zoo: bighasbeen: I'll be your eyes on the ground.

I haven't even thought about that movie in so long.

[opens up Netflix que]

Thanks!

My father used to say that not playing to win is like sleeping with your sister. Sure she's a great piece of tail, with a blouse full of goodies, but... it's just illegal. Then you get into that whole inbred thing. Kids with no teeth who do nothing but play the banjo... eat apple sauce through a straw... pork farm animals...

When I opened the page I immediately thought this is one of those pics that people make the Nigerian scammers do to prove they are "legit".

Pretty cool idea.

This one?



/SIT DOWN, Waldo

They could perform surgery to correct the issue. It's a multioptipupiloptomy. But to avoid damaging the eye socket, they have to go in through the rectum.

Eddie Adams from Torrance

Is that Uncle Junior or the Six Flags Guy?

The guy should win a nobel prize or equivalent.

As somebody who needs to replace her glasses every three months due to rapidly degrading vision, these are a farking great idea. I can't imagine how appreciative the recipients must be. With that said, however:

bighasbeen: Schrodinger's Petting Zoo: bighasbeen: I'll be your eyes on the ground.

I haven't even thought about that movie in so long.

[opens up Netflix que]

Thanks!

My father used to say that not playing to win is like sleeping with your sister. Sure she's a great piece of tail, with a blouse full of goodies, but... it's just illegal. Then you get into that whole inbred thing. Kids with no teeth who do nothing but play the banjo... eat apple sauce through a straw... pork farm animals...

Uncle Ben?

bighasbeen: My father used to say that not playing to win is like sleeping with your sister. Sure she's a great piece of tail, with a blouse full of goodies, but... it's just illegal. Then you get into that whole inbred thing. Kids with no teeth who do nothing but play the banjo... eat apple sauce through a straw... pork farm animals...

Is good ole dad from West Virgina? I don't think it is the norm to make an analogy about sleeping with your sister.

Oh, I see.

NERD GLASSES ARE HOT!

BTW, I'd imagine being able to see/read > looking cool/fashionable.

gund: The guy should win a nobel prize or equivalent.

To start.....

Old news is Old, this was posted like 4 months ago in the Geek tab.

The key to his winning some sort of prize depends on how long the glasses last, if they cannot make it a few years, they are not "That Good" of an idea. or at least... not yet.

APPROVES
http://tinyurl.com/mhwy7w
(copy and paste)

Eddie Adams from Torrance: Appoves.



Related?

I see what you did there...

jynxyu: I see what you did there...

Try that with another pic...

AnubisMan: bighasbeen: My father used to say that not playing to win is like sleeping with your sister. Sure she's a great piece of tail, with a blouse full of goodies, but... it's just illegal. Then you get into that whole inbred thing. Kids with no teeth who do nothing but play the banjo... eat apple sauce through a straw... pork farm animals...

Is good ole dad from West Virgina? I don't think it is the norm to make an analogy about sleeping with your sister.

His eyes were ceramic. Caught a bazooka round at Little Big Horn. Or was it Okinawa? The one without the Indians.

Ah one, anda two...




/Take me out to the ball game...

This brings up some questions that have been floating around in my head:

Why do so many humans have poor vision? It seems that natural selection would have weeded them out. Out of 2 humans, the one with better vision would be able to better spot a predator and escape from it. You can't find your own food without seeing well, etc. Spectacles weren't available to our ancestors.

And I don't mean to be offensive. I've had glasses all of my life, since I was very young, until I got LASIK a couple of years ago.

I wonder if so many humans have always had poor vision or if this is a more recent thing.

Of course, this is anecdotal. I just see lots of people wearing glasses and think to myself, man, how did we come this far with such an important "defect"? Vision is a pretty important sense compared to the others.

I understand that, as we get older, our body parts deteriorate, but kids can have poor vision too (myself being the case in point).

I also wonder, do many animals also have poor vision?

Inquiring minds want to know.

That's just what people need in the desert: glasses of water.

/what about beer goggles?

I bet once all those africans can see, it will cut down on AIDS.

"Take a Sub-Saharan country where there is one optometrist for every million people; those people will never see an optometrist, so how will they get eyewear?," he told CNN.


These would be great for those times when you're stuck in the desert, you could crack the lens and have drink.

Not if they're beer goggles, BlorfMaster.

Fill them up half way and you've got bifocals. Brilliant!

What Guy: That's just what people need in the desert: glasses of water.


/guess you're faster on the draw than me...

BlorfMaster: I bet once all those africans can see, it will cut down on AIDS.

Yes, by preventing rape.

/seriously, what a great idea those things are

What a great idea.
I'm fortunate to have been able to afford lasik to fix my own eyes, but I can't imagine living life in a blurry world.
Who cares if you look like an idiot,

All the crap news you read every day, now I see this, it's great, this made my day. I'm having trouble finding a link to donate to this project - can any of you find it ?

FTA: The secret of the self-refractive glasses is their lenses.

OF COURSE! It's so obvious now! This hippopotamus-based vision system I've been working on was doomed from the start.

A hologram of a lens will pass light as if the lens was physically there. Why has no one caught on to this for glasses and contacts?

I bet Devo is all over this.

rustymiller: Why do so many humans have poor vision? It seems that natural selection would have weeded them out. Out of 2 humans, the one with better vision would be able to better spot a predator and escape from it. You can't find your own food without seeing well, etc.

No answer for you, I'd like to know too, though. I don't know how I would have been able to survive at all back then - can barely see 10 feet. I'd be wolf dinner by the time I was 20.

Whatchu talkin bout Willis????

great, Drew can offer an eyebleach version for farkers...

rustymiller: This brings up some questions that have been floating around in my head:

Why do so many humans have poor vision? It seems that natural selection would have weeded them out. Out of 2 humans, the one with better vision would be able to better spot a predator and escape from it. You can't find your own food without seeing well, etc. Spectacles weren't available to our ancestors.

And I don't mean to be offensive. I've had glasses all of my life, since I was very young, until I got LASIK a couple of years ago.

I wonder if so many humans have always had poor vision or if this is a more recent thing.

Of course, this is anecdotal. I just see lots of people wearing glasses and think to myself, man, how did we come this far with such an important "defect"? Vision is a pretty important sense compared to the others.

I understand that, as we get older, our body parts deteriorate, but kids can have poor vision too (myself being the case in point).

I also wonder, do many animals also have poor vision?

Inquiring minds want to know.

I think much of it is modern society. Sure there were always people with bad eyesight (who were taken care of by the rest of the tribe if they had other redeeming qualities), but now we spend so much of our lives focused intently on objects that are much closer to our faces than our ancestors evolved to deal with--books, computer screens, restaurant menus. Visual acuity means so much more to us than it did to our ancestors. Even somebody with 20/40 vision can spot the lion-shaped blob of color moving toward him, but it takes a modern lifestyle to make resolution of fine details important.

I know personally, my eyesight didn't degrade until I started using computers heavily during my teen years. As a kid I had razor-sharp eyesight and then it very rapidly deteriorated after I got the interwebs.

check this! Rick Roll? Maybe...
Link (new window)

Where's milton?

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A demo of these was actually posted on TED (new window) this month.