After being blinded by a rocket propelled grenade in Iraq, that’s right a ROCKET PROPELLED GRENADE.  L/Cpl Craig Lundberg of Merseyside England has now licked the problem using terminator/Robocop esque sunglasses and a electric lollipop. Using the device Brainport he is promised neither to be faster nor stronger, but instead not as blind. The device rests on his tongue and converts video from the sunglasses into electrical signals delivered to the tongue and is described as the  ”tingling” one gets licking a 9-volt battery or ”pins and needles”  or “popping candy.” Even so the individual must have this lollipop like device hang out of his mouth like they are at an awful never ending tragic rave where there are rocket propelled grenade flashbacks. Currently the Minister of Defence in England has spent £18,000 on the prototype which will one day hopefully be a smaller permanent implant on the roof of the mouth to allow one to be able to talk/eat. The device as the L/Cpl has described has the potential to “change his life” allowing him to grab objects he perceives from the 2-D black and white display projected electrically on his tongue. I suggest however that before we start investing in these devices en masse. We first begin investing in FEWER ROCKET POWERED GRENADES.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=RaTzQVHi-C4