Comments on: Robo-chick With No Eyes Can See! http://derrenbrown.co.uk/blog/2009/01/robo-chick-with-no-eyes-can-see/ The official Derren Brown Blog Mon, 07 May 2012 09:24:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: Sadun Kal http://derrenbrown.co.uk/blog/2009/01/robo-chick-with-no-eyes-can-see/#comment-4091 Sadun Kal Mon, 02 Feb 2009 10:27:26 +0000 http://derrenbrown.co.uk/blog/?p=359#comment-4091 I love science too but what's impressive here is the technology and not so much the Science. You can have technology without science and science without technology. Think about how the cavemen used fire and build tools and all that. They didn't really understand why things are the way they are, that's what science is -or should be- about. What they did was to observe and work things out through trial and error. We got a better understanding now and we make better guesses (we're better at trial and error) but technology is still only technology and not science. Anyway here's a more recent news story about bionic eyes, the one above is from 2006: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=696dxY6BYBM I love science too but what’s impressive here is the technology and not so much the Science. You can have technology without science and science without technology. Think about how the cavemen used fire and build tools and all that. They didn’t really understand why things are the way they are, that’s what science is -or should be- about. What they did was to observe and work things out through trial and error. We got a better understanding now and we make better guesses (we’re better at trial and error) but technology is still only technology and not science.

Anyway here’s a more recent news story about bionic eyes, the one above is from 2006: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=696dxY6BYBM

]]> By: ReliegiousMarie http://derrenbrown.co.uk/blog/2009/01/robo-chick-with-no-eyes-can-see/#comment-4020 ReliegiousMarie Fri, 30 Jan 2009 23:06:20 +0000 http://derrenbrown.co.uk/blog/?p=359#comment-4020 wow, can i have one attached to a satelite pleassee wow, can i have one attached to a satelite pleassee

]]> By: vampirebloom http://derrenbrown.co.uk/blog/2009/01/robo-chick-with-no-eyes-can-see/#comment-4014 vampirebloom Fri, 30 Jan 2009 21:22:39 +0000 http://derrenbrown.co.uk/blog/?p=359#comment-4014 did any one watch the show, it was a while back. was a very interesting show. did any one watch the show, it was a while back.
was a very interesting show.

]]> By: Emilie http://derrenbrown.co.uk/blog/2009/01/robo-chick-with-no-eyes-can-see/#comment-4010 Emilie Fri, 30 Jan 2009 20:03:10 +0000 http://derrenbrown.co.uk/blog/?p=359#comment-4010 That actually sounds amazing. I love science. Give it fifty years and no one on earth will be blind. That actually sounds amazing. I love science. Give it fifty years and no one on earth will be blind.

]]> By: Sarah http://derrenbrown.co.uk/blog/2009/01/robo-chick-with-no-eyes-can-see/#comment-4003 Sarah Fri, 30 Jan 2009 18:10:18 +0000 http://derrenbrown.co.uk/blog/?p=359#comment-4003 Nice to see that there are such optimistic people on this blog. *cough*Micky*cough* ;D Nice to see that there are such optimistic people on this blog.
*cough*Micky*cough*

;D

]]> By: Muad'Dib http://derrenbrown.co.uk/blog/2009/01/robo-chick-with-no-eyes-can-see/#comment-3967 Muad'Dib Fri, 30 Jan 2009 09:39:18 +0000 http://derrenbrown.co.uk/blog/?p=359#comment-3967 Hmmmmmm I was rather thinking of 'Seven of Nine, here we come':) Give in that actress is so much sexier with the cyborg thingies attached than without:) Ok but seriously, science rocks! Hmmmmmm I was rather thinking of ‘Seven of Nine, here we come’:) Give in that actress is so much sexier with the cyborg thingies attached than without:)

Ok but seriously, science rocks!

]]> By: Flapjack http://derrenbrown.co.uk/blog/2009/01/robo-chick-with-no-eyes-can-see/#comment-3966 Flapjack Fri, 30 Jan 2009 09:34:38 +0000 http://derrenbrown.co.uk/blog/?p=359#comment-3966 At the risk of looking like a total sci-fi geek, shouldn't it look like an alice band that slipped down over the patient's eyes like Geordi La Forge's did in Star Trek TNG? At the risk of looking like a total sci-fi geek, shouldn’t it look like an alice band that slipped down over the patient’s eyes like Geordi La Forge’s did in Star Trek TNG?

]]> By: phillis http://derrenbrown.co.uk/blog/2009/01/robo-chick-with-no-eyes-can-see/#comment-3964 phillis Fri, 30 Jan 2009 09:22:59 +0000 http://derrenbrown.co.uk/blog/?p=359#comment-3964 I might have one installed with a internet feed I might have one installed with a internet feed

]]> By: Berber Anna http://derrenbrown.co.uk/blog/2009/01/robo-chick-with-no-eyes-can-see/#comment-3955 Berber Anna Fri, 30 Jan 2009 01:38:14 +0000 http://derrenbrown.co.uk/blog/?p=359#comment-3955 The electrodes plug into the device, the article says. Seems logical, as you'd have to be able to take the thing off when you want to sleep and such. So if it caused fits or pain, the patient would be able to take it off, I think. The electrodes plug into the device, the article says. Seems logical, as you’d have to be able to take the thing off when you want to sleep and such. So if it caused fits or pain, the patient would be able to take it off, I think.

]]> By: micky http://derrenbrown.co.uk/blog/2009/01/robo-chick-with-no-eyes-can-see/#comment-3954 micky Fri, 30 Jan 2009 01:34:36 +0000 http://derrenbrown.co.uk/blog/?p=359#comment-3954 bit worrying as it could cause endless epileptic fits in some patients i could only imagine the pain that would entail with no way of stopping it once the device has been secured to your skull!! bit worrying as it could cause endless epileptic fits in some patients i could only imagine the pain that would entail with no way of stopping it once the device has been secured to your skull!!

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