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Iris Implant Surgery to Change Eye Colour
People unhappy with the way they look have been using plastic surgery to change their appearance for years, but now they can take their obsession to a whole new level by changing the color of their eyes through a controversial procedure known as artificial iris implant.
Pioneered by Dr. Kenneth Rosenthal, as a way to correct various eye defects (heterochromia, ocular albinism, etc.), the artificial iris implant procedure is now also being advertised as cosmetic surgery for people who want to permanently change the color of their eyes. The artificial iris is a thin, non-toxic prosthesis made of the same ophthalmic grade silicone used in intraocular lenses. Since the fake iris is very flexible, it can be folded and inserted into the eye through a peripheral corneal surgical incision about 2.8 mm long, and unfolded over the natural iris.
According to the website of BrightOcular, the company behind the increasingly popular cosmetic eye surgery, the procedure is “short, safe, and painless”, taking about 15 minutes for each eye. The surgery has a purely cosmetic purpose, it does not fix vision defects, so patients will still need to wear refractive instruments to correct their vision. Unlike other laser-based procedures that remove a layer of melanin from the iris in order to permanently change its color, BrightOcular claims their iris implant can easily be removed in case of complications or if the patient so desires.
Photo: BrightOcular
46-year-old Angel S., an unemployed freight worker in Chicago, got artificial iris implant surgery in 2012, changing his dark brown eyes to light grey, a color he had always been crazy about. Angel says the natural color of his eyes depressed him so much that he would often refrain from looking in the mirror in the morning, because seeing the dark eyes made him think it was going to be a dark day for him. After seeing someone’s grey eyes in a candy store one day, he knew that was the color he wanted for himself, so he started researching his option and eventually flew to Rio de Janeiro to get an artificial iris implanted.
Why didn’t he just have it done in the US, you ask? It wasn’t cost related, if that’s what you’re thinking, it’s just that the procedure has yet to get FDA approval. According to Dr. Gregory J. Pamel, a corneal and refractive surgeon in Manhattan, there are no approved devices to cosmetically change the color of the eyes in the US. BrightOcular implants are currently performed in India, Turkey, Mexico and Lebanon.
Dr. James Tsai, an ophthalmologist and a glaucoma specialist at Yale University, says safety claims made in online discussions are “misleading as well as inaccurate”. He cautions that artificial implant surgery can cause elevated pressure inside the eye that can lead to glaucoma, cataracts and corneal injury, as well as reduced vision or blindness.
3 Best Technologies That Will Change Everyone’s Lives
These are three technologies in development that aren’t just maybes, aren’t just possibilities scattered across the horizon, but are changing lives right now, and very soon will change yours and those of everyone you know.
Stem Cells
This group of technologies is all over the news for a reason: it has the potential to utterly revolutionize huge swaths of the medical field. Every year, scientists get better and better at producing, utilizing, and controlling human stem cells, which are increasingly created from the patient’s own tissues, obviating the need for more politically-sensitive sources like discarded embryos.
This isn’t just a hypothetical “unspecified date in the future” technology like practical nuclear fusion power, it’s being used right now. Burn wounds, long one of the most horrifically painful and difficult-to-heal types of trauma, are now being treated by some researches with what is essentially an airbrush using a stem cell solution instead of paint, allowing full recovery in days rather than weeks. 3-D printers are being used to create fully-functional organs using stem cells instead of ink, meaning a possible end to long agonizing waits for transplants. Drugs that can cause bone marrow to excrete its own stem cells into the bloodstream are being used in place of painful liquid marrow extractions from donors. This is just what’s being done right now; the possible future applications are stunning.
Brain-Computer Interfaces
Another technology that’s much farther along right now than most people might expect, brain-computer interfaces refer to the installation of a direct communication pathway between a nervous system and and an electronic one. The first neuroprosthetics of this kind were installed in the mid-1990s, and research has continued to produce astonishing achievements. Monkeys have been fitted with systems wired directly into their brains, allowing them to control a running robot half a continent away, or feed themselves easily and fluidly with a robot arm while their own biological limbs are restrained.
For humans, right now this means mobility for the impaired, sight for the blind, new functional limbs for amputees, and a host of other immediate applications that have the capacity to improve quality of life. In the future, this kind of research may mean things like radiotelepathy (verbal or textual communication between two minds by way of radio signals, more or less like a cell phone implanted in the brain) and completely hands-free computer interfaces where control is exercised without the need for mice, keyboards, or other peripherals.
Driverless Cars
Do these sound like far-fetched science fiction? They’re not. They’re not even next-year science fiction. Driverless cars are on the road right now. Google alone has a dozen vehicles operating in California, and in 300,000 miles of operation has seen only one accident: a crash near Mountain View where the engineer had taken direct control. Three states have already passed laws to deal with this new technology, with Nevada making them explicitly legal in the state.
The systems developed so far include fully functional manual overrides, of course, and can be put back into human control at a moment’s notice. However, on the whole computer drivers are much, much safer than human ones: they do not get tired, do not get road rage, never speed, run traffic lights, or tailgate. When multiple autonomous vehicles are on the road, they can communicate with each other for even greater safety and traffic efficiency. Google is currently rumored to be developing something called “Robo-Taxi”.
My Smart Keyboard Quickly Change It
Now you had been going through many movie in which you see the holographic or super screen technology in which every thing happens on a glass or virtual holograph. All you do is swipe your fingers over it, This is the future! We all can’t wait to have such technology among us in which we do the work like this and it would be amazing to have such an experience.
Well there is some one who loves to take care of your dreams, Celluon is the company who has manufactured a laser keyboard. In reality they have just made up a device which actually allows you to type on a virtual keyboard. This device throws beams of light on an opaque object in front of it. When you tap an alphabet it response as quick as your actual keyboard does plus it sound so that you can hear that an alphabet is typed.
It get connected via USB or bluetooth and have a very good battery time. It allows connectivity with iMac,iPhone, iPad, iPod, Android 2.0+ devices. It also get connected with your laptop or desktop running windows.
Blackberry Messenger BBM Change to Android & iOS
Blackberry has announced that their Blackberry Messenger popularly known as BBM will be launching across multiple platforms like Android and iOS. Now BBM fans using other mobile devices like Android phone and iPhones can now have the BBM feature on their mobile phone, you can now be able to enjoy the awesome BBM services. This is expected to happen this summer.
The BBM app will be made available on Google Play Store and Apple App Store for users of the various mobile platforms to talk with Blackberry users. The BBM app will support all iOS devices running on iOS 6 and higher, as well as Android devices running Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich and higher. Both apps will of course need to pass Google and Apple’s approval process first.
Blackberry Messenger BBM
In the first version of multi-platform BBM, iOS and Android users are expected to be able to experience the following BBM features:
- The immediacy of BBM chats
- Multi-person chats
- Voice note sharing
- BlackBerry Groups, where BBM users are able to set up groups of up to 30 people and share calendar, photos, files and more.
BBM Voice and Video chatting will not be included in the initial rollout, but will be introduced later through the app updates.
What does this mean for Blackberry?
In truth, most Blackberry phone users today are only using Blackberry because of BBM and when it has been made available on other platforms like Android and iOS, there will definitely be a shift in the number of Blackberry phones purchased but a massive increase in the number of people using their BBM services.
Already Blackberry is claiming to have over 60 million active users of the BBM and they share over 10 billion messages each day, the release of this app to other mobile phone platforms will see that figure triple.
What does this mean for Whatsapp and other alternatives?
Whatsapp became popular as the closest alternative to the BBM as a result of their non-support for other platforms, but when this app will be released for Android and iOS platforms, Whatsapp and other BBM alternatives will be hit a hard blow. I won’t be surprised to either see a healthy competition that will bring about massive changes and awesome innovations or the death of the alternatives.
Are you an enthusiast of the BBM on Android and iOS? What are your expectations? What is your view of this article? Do you think Blackberry is putting themselves at risk by supporting their biggest competitor’s platforms? Or do you think it’s a smart move? Let’s hear from you, use the comment form below to share what you think about this article with me. Remember to subscribe to my RSS feed.
