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		kiwih on Feb 16, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Second Sight left users of its retinal implants in... Fascinating article, definitely prompts thoughts around the abandonment of technology... From a technical standpoint, I wonder how hard it would be to reverse engineer the wireless protocol that the implant is expecting, so that a custom camera/software could be used to beam in the data? That wouldn't help if the implant fails, but for cases like Jeroen (from the article) who dropped his VPU and needed to crowdsource a replacement, it might be a godsend.

mmastrac on Feb 16, 2022 [–]

Yes, definitely would be worth it to try and dump the code from a broken VPU and do whatever we can to reverse it.

I wonder if a small hacker collective could get in touch with him?

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