Biologically extending human vision into the near-infrared: Initial success
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Re: Biologically extending human vision into the near-infrared: Initial success
#2I'd love to see the ERG readings for more experiments and before vs after at 950nm~
Re: Biologically extending human vision into the near-infrared: Initial success
#3I'd love to see the ERG readings for more experiments and before vs after at 950nm~
a lengthy discussion over on reddit about this: http://www.reddit.com/r/Futurology/comments/2e5wry/biohacker...
Re: Biologically extending human vision into the near-infrared: Initial success
#4Link to the original Project Page, if (like me) you're playing catch up on the experiment:
https://experiment.com/projects/can-we-biologically-extend-t...
Re: Biologically extending human vision into the near-infrared: Initial success
#5What an interesting experiment. Could there be some basis, after all, to the urban legend that eating carrots improves night vision? Carotenes are "partly metabolized into Vitamin A" [1], but this experiment is skipping the precursors and going straight for what I assume are large and exclusive doses of Vitamin A. Can it really be that no one has tried this before?
Related and probably equally silly idea: I've always wanted a pair of sunglasses that could tune in to different EM spectra. How far are we from that? Night vision goggles are bulky because they need external power to do the frequency shifting, right?
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#6Through technological enhancement[1] or practice it seems that anyone can make an attempt at monitoring & responding too these frequencies.
Re: Biologically extending human vision into the near-infrared: Initial success
#7What an interesting experiment. Could there be some basis, after all, to the urban legend that eating carrots improves night vision? Carotenes are "partly metabolized into Vitamin A" [1], but this experiment is skipping the precursors and going straight for what I assume are large and exclusive doses of Vitamin A. Can it really be that no one has tried this before? Related and probably equally silly idea: I've always…
The urban legend was mostly due to its use in WWII, to explain why the allied night fighters were so good. The fighters actually used radar, which was still top secret.
Re: Biologically extending human vision into the near-infrared: Initial success
#8What an interesting experiment. Could there be some basis, after all, to the urban legend that eating carrots improves night vision? Carotenes are "partly metabolized into Vitamin A" [1], but this experiment is skipping the precursors and going straight for what I assume are large and exclusive doses of Vitamin A. Can it really be that no one has tried this before? Related and probably equally silly idea: I've always…
The urban legend was mostly due to its use in WWII, to explain why the allied night fighters were so good. The fighters actually used radar, which was still top secret.
Yeah it's a consideration, but the mere use of an existing old wive's tale doesn't completely discount the possibility of there being some truth to it anyway...
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#9This is particularly relevant given that there's been a recent trend of interest in thermal imaging cameras... of course, the range of those is in much longer wavelengths.
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#10What's really cool is that this entire project was done for under $5k!