SOMEONE’S got to post a picture of SOMETHING for this thread :)
I’m not creative enough.
Well... Chinese army with built in nightvision
This can only work if the particles are “charged up” first. They can’t convert long wavelengths to short wavelengths at ordinary light intensities; sufficient intensity to cause second-harmonic generation would surely be injurious to the eye due to thermal effects.
I very much doubt the Chinese University of Science and Technology has solved that problem, which stems from thermodynamic considerations. If they had, the implications would be extremely wide-ranging, far beyond intra-ocular nanoparticles.
Cool, but it would be better if you could turn it on and off.
Sounds creepy.
If we’re hearing about it now, China has been doing it to political prisoners for months.
I am waiting for the X-ray vision nanoparticle.
“researchers, from the University of Science and Technology in China, call “ocular injectable photoreceptor-binding upconversion nanoparticles.””
I wonder how you say that in Chinese.
I think that would literally drive people insane after a few days.
I doubt there’s a way to reverse it, either. It’s not like you can go back into the retina and capture all those nanoparticles.
Want!
My old man told me a story of when he was a young man, probably around 1945 or so, how he worked night shift in a factory sandblasting metal that they were casting and a chunk of it got into his eye. They rushed him to the town doctors house and he had him sit down in the kitchen which had the best light. A single bulb hanging from the ceiling. The doc took a scalpel sort of like an X-acto knife and held his eye open and said "now whatever you do, don't move your eye" as he slowly moved the sharp tip towards it.
When he told that story I got the sense that if the experience resulted in him having mid reading super powers or time travel abilities, he'd take a hard pass on reliving it.
I want to see in IR.
This should be a cheap procedure.
Maybe someday.
“assuming you don’t mind a needle in the eye”
As a treatment for macular degeneration, I have to get a needle in the eye every one or two months an avastin injection. Of course they apply numbing drops beforehand.
It isn’t fun or pleasant but it is necessary if I want to see out of that eye.
“Steve Austin, astronaut. A man barely alive. Gentlemen, we can rebuild him. We have the technology...”
I haven’t read the article, but will as curiosity puzzles me as to how the injections altered the rods, or higher frequency photo receptor neurons in the retina.
I’m a retired CPA and tax law professor. Unraveling the anatomy & physiology of the human body has replaced crossword puzzles in my retirement.
New medical procedure for marines in 3, 2, 1...
do they see IR AND visible light at the same time or just the IR???