On Fri, 1 Jul 2005, Steve Murphy wrote:
>>> Avoid the brightness drawback, turn the pointers around, paint directly on 
>>> the retina.
>> You could sell these as a kit. Alas the box would have to be large enough 
>> to hold the supplied white cane and opaque blind man's 'sunglasses' needed 
>> for completion.
> Laugh all you like, but this is not science fiction...
>
> http://www.hitl.washington.edu/projects/vrd/
> http://www.mvis.com/
>
> Obviously, they're probably not using a dollar store laser pointer...don't 
> try this at home kids!

Or read "The Men Who Stare At Goats" by Jon Ronson for the story
about another project the govt. spent decades and who knows how
much money on.

There are much more bizzare projects than retinal burns out there.
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