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“The digital cooler screens at Walgreens made me watch an ad before it allowed me to know which door held the frozen pizzas,” (hexbear.net)

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[-] [email protected] 26 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

(this has been done experimentally, effectively giving people a low res greyscale sort of sight from a camera - note I was seeing stuff about this a good 10-15 years ago so it may be better now, actually)

it's worse, the for-profit company spun up to privatize the gains of that public research went bankrupt and put their patients into a cyberpunk hell of having to crowdsource parts and repairs for their cybernetic eyes

[-] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Yeah that whole situation is fucked up.

https://spectrum.ieee.org/bionic-eye-obsolete

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