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Surgery Turns Woman's Eye into a Telescope

Posted July 21, 2012 1:48 PM

From Neatorama:

Doris Ekblad-Olson, 82, of Colorado is the first person to receive CentraSight, an experimental optical implant: Ekblad-Olson suffers from "wet" macular degeneration, an end-stage form of the common, chronic disease, where blood vessels are leaking and destroying central vision.

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07/21/2012 3:10 PM

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07/22/2012 12:39 AM

Totally cool.

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07/23/2012 11:41 AM

A lot of pop-ups on that link.

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