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Re:Electronic contact lens displays pixels on the eyes by felipemnoa on Tuesday November 22, 2011 @02:27PM (#3266968)
The brain can adapt to "seeing" images through the tongue [1] so I don't think this would be a problem. The brain is always adapting to new inputs.

[1] http://discovermagazine.com/2003/jun/feattongue

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Re:Electronic contact lens displays pixels on the eyes by jessriedel on Tuesday November 22, 2011 @05:26PM (#3267698)
There are limits to its adaptability, especially for processing-heavy tasks like vision for which the brain has specialized hardware. There is a world of difference between interpreting 144 electrodes to pick out just a couple of bits of information, and seeing.

In particular, if the brain were infinitely plastic then you could just wire the output from a HD video camera to some random spot on the brain and wait for the brain to figure it out.

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Re:Electronic contact lens displays pixels on the eyes by mietek on Wednesday November 23, 2011 @10:15AM (#3270244)
Have you tried doing that?
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