Make Those Brown Eyes Blue 208
randomErr writes A new procedure has been developed that can turn any brown eye to blue. The procedure uses a laser that disturbs the melanin in the pigmented part of the eye. Over the course of a few weeks your body would eliminate the disturbed pigment revealing the blue layer below all people have. The procedure costs about $5,000 and only takes a few second to complete. You can't get it yet in the U.S. because it still going through clinical trials and some ophthalmologists fear that process could increase pressure in the eyes.
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...things not worth $5000
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Indeed. Stupid ways to spend $5K ...
* Laser Blue Eye Surgery
* Watches
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Bull. I got a simple Seiko for 400 euro. Ti casing, sapphire window, kinetic, simple and elegant. Booklet says 10 sec per month deviation. I timed it over 6 months - 1.5 seconds. So, how much more accurate the 20k watch would be? Is it worth the extra cost? I don't think so...
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They are most certainly NOT. If I want to know the time, I will ask some gimp like you.
They are for:
- "Reading the time" at the appropriate moment to show a new acquaintance how wealthy and fashionable you are.
- Indicate to ladies that they too could have such expensive gifts if they sleep with you. (lol - yeah right!!)
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Bull. I got a simple Seiko for 400 euro.
I got a simple Casio for ten dollars. Keeps time at least as well as your Seiko and as a nice side benefit it's a nice gitmo talking point [wikipedia.org]. (Yes, that's really truly the watch I own.) As a side benefit, if it gets damaged, lost, stolen etc., I don't care.
Your watch is a bracelet. It's jewelry, and being a watch is secondary.
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While your's is one of "Hey I'm much superior and better than those other guys who purchase expensive watches! Weak minds!"
No, my watch is a superior watch. Their watch is a superior bracelet. To each their own, just don't lie to yourself about what you're buying, that's dumb.
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You have an unnecessary piece of plastic and electronically junk around your wrist which perform a task your phone do and beyond.
Nah, I don't even wear it unless I actually need a watch. I have a Moto G, whose smartphone features I use all the time, and it's what I take with me when I go out. The watch was actually a gift from my father. But I'm pretty sure he paid around ten bucks for it, he was a cheapskate. It still works, many years on, and it's still a good watch.
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What on earth makes you think the quality of a watch is about it's ability to keep precise time?
A $20000 certified Swiss chronometer has a typical accuracy of +/- 2 second per day. That is an accuracy easily beaten by a $10 wrist watch from a chemist.
Watches are jewelry.
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definition of a good watch is one that will impress someone with money. it has nothing to do with how accurate it is.
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It depends what you're doing with it. On the rare occasion I wear a watch it's for keeping time for celestial navigation. Keeping very accurate time is it's only function. I hear people with nothing better to do often wear jewellery to impress each other though.
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Let me get my solid gold ruler and see...
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My cellphone is more accurate than any of these watches, since it syncs to the towers. And it doesn't cost me a dime, since I already pay for it for communications use; the timekeeping feature is just a bonus. Plus, I don't have to have some annoying thing strapped to my wrist.
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I *am* an American, you moron. Sorry if you don't like that. I never claimed it was the greatest place in the world anyway, I just live here. And "cellphone" is much shorter and faster to say (and type) than "mobile phone". And if you drop the "phone" part, you end up with "mobile", which is a toy you hang over babies' cribs.
I really don't give a shit about a watch lasting 10 years on a battery. Why is that important? It's not like I'm going to be stuck somewhere away from civilization for 10 years.
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Ok, what shitty country do you hail from? I'm sure I can come up with lots of generalizations about it. Germany = Nazis, French = cowards, etc.
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Your mobile phone (stop calling it a "cell" phone, it sounds stupid and gives you away as an American) also won't last for ten years on a single battery.
American English is spoken outside the USA. In Australia and other places, you'll hear it called a "cell phone" more often than a mobile. Though, when posting on line, they tend to write "mobile" because of the British English pricks that whinge every time someone uses an American expression, even if it's more widely used than the archaic British English version.
And I have more than one cell phone that's over 10 years old, and still on a single battery.
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On the other hand, I do not see what the intent was pointing out that cell phone is am American term. Either way, it was understood, right? There's lots of words for, say, 'sex' too, that often vary by locale, however most people seem to relish knowing as many alternatives to that term as t
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I personally do often call it a 'mobile phone' as a compromise when speaking to my American friends, however.
(I lived a while in the USA, and I think between work and friends, I talk to Americans more than Aussies, most days)
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And people with blue eyes get more eye damage from bright sunlight.
Messing with my eyes is not my idea of being safe.
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Yeah, but less likely to go snow blind.
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You could easily spend more than $5000 getting braces or plastic surgery.
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There is plastic surgery (reconstructive surgery)and a subset is cosmetic surgery.
I had plastic surgery, I had a cyst on my jaw line that was infected. So a plastic surgeon removed it in a way that it didn't scar or damage all the nerves in my face.
Then there is cosmetic surgery where people get procedures done for no medical reason other to match what is currently fationable.
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It's not necessarily to match "what is currently fashionable"": lots of studies have found that there is an objective measure of beauty in humans, and that's symmetry. Humans who look more symmetrical are perceived as more attractive; it's hard-wired into our brains as a measure of reproductive fitness. So any plastic surgery to make you look more symmetrical (such as removing moles or other facial blemishes) isn't a matter of fashion, it's a matter of beautification according to our biological preference
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Perfectly symmetrical faces look weird. Try it in your favourite image editor.
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Try making the face symmetrical vertically not horizontally.
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Maybe, but Cindy Crawford used to be considered a raving beauty and she had a prominent mole.
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I realise English isn't your first language, but why do you think merging is the same as making them symmetrical?
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You're not fixing it if it's not broken.
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How do you know?
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Alex, what is... a year of feeling like a princess paying $5 for $0.50 coffees at Starbucks?
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...things not worth $5000
....unless you're a criminal trying to change your identity...
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....unless you're a criminal trying to change your identity...
Or a fake blonde going the extra mile to fake being natural.
eye tatoos (Score:2)
You might be able to get the procedure sponsored if you choose to have a particular motif. I'm assuming that it's possible to selectively etch away the melanin. So this breakthrough opens the way to eye tatoos.
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If the color of your eyes is damaging your self confidence, you have bigger problems.
Frankly, fuck shit like this. (Score:1)
There's no need for it. At all. It serves no medical good.
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heterochromia is so sexy. like kate bosworth.
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Why would one with Bowie eyes want to change that? That would be rather cool to have.
Sneetches with stars on thars (Score:2)
It's like a tattoo that won't come off until the next machine comes along.
The experience should be something like a face tattoo.
Turning Japanese (Score:1)
I heard about this being developed a long time ago, and when I did, my best friend and I both said this would turn into a gold mine in Japan. They'll go nuts for the ability to give themselves real and for true blue eyes without having to wear contact lenses.
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I don't think it would matter much. Japanese already have a social reaction to this which would fill the gap. Tattoos are shunned in public places. This would probably fall along the same lines.
Dying your hair is also more socially acceptable now, but not in a business setting.
Besides, a Japanese driver's license doesn't even have a place for hair or eye color. ( I am a permanent resident of Japan and have a Japanese license)
Modern medical science is amazing. (Score:5, Insightful)
I'm an older gent (I'm in my late 70s). I've witnessed a lot of change of my life, including the rise of computers and the Internet. But nothing amazes more more than medical science. Here we are, able to turn brown eyes blue. I never would have thought that would be possible during my lifetime. And I've also heard that thanks to modern surgical techniques, it's possible to turn a woman into a man, and a man into a woman. Sometimes the surgery is so effective that it's nearly impossible to tell the difference! Back when I was a young man, if somebody had blue eyes, it's because they always had blue eyes. And if somebody had a penis, it's because they always had a penis. But thanks to advancements in medical science, what I knew to be true when I was a young man is no longer the case now. Brown eyes can become blue. Penises can be surgically crafted, and be indistinguishable from the real thing. Medical science: it's amazing!
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There's also a drug that can turn blue eyes brown:
http://io9.com/why-does-this-e... [io9.com]
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And vice-versa [wikipedia.org].
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Well, yes and no. If you look at Roman Emperors like Augustus and Tiberius they became 75 and 77 years old, respectively and those dates are fairly certain. For sure they're not representative but there were certainly those who lived longer. Looking at modern mortality tables here in Norway some 23% and 27% of the population would already be dead at this age. And 50% will be dead by 85, 90% by 95, 98% by 100. Far fewer people die young, but 2000 years of medicine has bought us maybe 20 years of life span, i
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What about turning blue eyes brown? (Score:1)
And is it permanent, or does the brown pigment return eventually?
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Reminds me of the Sneetches.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?... [youtube.com]
How lost these people must be.. (Score:2, Insightful)
To imagine that changing their eye color will make them happier.
I have brown eyes. Of my 8 great-grandparents, only 1 had brown eyes. Of my 4 grandparents, only 1 had brown eyes. Of my parents, 1 had brown eyes. These are the eyes I was born with and these are the eyes I will die with.
Of all the things one could change, eye color would be way down on the list. Perhaps someday one will be able to buy intelligence or self-respect.
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To understand this as some 'great quest in life' to change eyes is short sighted. There are plenty other 'things' on this earth we can achieve with 5,000 $
Most people that can afford something like this would do it 'just because they can' and consider it around the same as a 'tattoo' or a 'really good night out'.
Just because they can.
That is how much free resource and energy is out there. In the system. It's honestly far greater then it ever was. Think Zorg from 5th element. But much more banal.
Judge and eq
I used to have two girlfriends... (Score:2)
Not at the same time :( but I found that if we had a all-night fuck session, their hazel eyes would turn greyish-blue as they got more tired. A good all nighter with an 8-ball would do the same thing, too.
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I always assumed that was what the song was about by Crystal Gayle, screwing until that happened...
Is this a good thing??? (Score:5, Insightful)
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Of course it's not a good thing. But as I see it... only people that worry more about "looks" (some people like blue eyes, especially in asia) will bypass thousands and thousands of years of evolution in favor of "looking good", and nature has a way of dealing with stupidity.
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I can definitely see it becoming very popular in S. Korea, though.
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Yeah, functionally, blue eyes kind of suck. Sunny summer or snowy winter, I can't leave home without sunglasses. I remember the first time I went skiing with a guy from Korea and he found out that we don't just wear sunglasses to look "styling".
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Re: Is this a good thing??? (Score:1)
People with dark eyes have a higher prevelance of cataracts, precisely because of the absorption.
People with light eyes have higher prevelance of eye cancer.
However, eye cancer is really rare, while cataracts are very common.
On the whole blue eyes win in terms of over all medical risk.
Woah woah woah!!!! (Score:4, Funny)
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Mandatory anal bleaching.
Deal with it.
Re: Woah woah woah!!!! (Score:1)
Just as long as it is not feltching...
What about me? (Score:1)
I have green eyes, you insensitive clod!
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Why Stop There (Score:2)
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You don't need laser surgery to do a Bowie. You just need a good punch in the face to blow your pupil.
Golden yellow (Score:3)
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Anyone know how some animals get the golden yellow colour? That would be cool.
Actually, wikipedia has a pretty good explanation [wikipedia.org]...
Unfortunately, the appearance of yellow in the iris can sometimes be associated with macular degeneration in humans... That is definitely not cool...
Pretty cool, but... (Score:2)
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Why would this bother you? This is really cool for anyone who wants blue eyes.
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"Mengele's experiments with eyes included attempts to change eye color by injecting chemicals into the eyes of living subjects and killing people with heterochromatic eyes so that the eyes could be removed and sent to Berlin for study."
I heard from other sources that blue was his target color.
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This is good (Score:2)
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Sounds like junk-science to me.
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http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/blue-... [ibtimes.co.uk]
http://westsidetoastmasters.co... [westsidetoastmasters.com]
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Nice references. Now I know it is junk science.
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Excellent point about Western vs. Japanese emoticons.
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I think it actually works the other way around. With light colored irises, the constriction becomes much more evident and that is a signal for disinterest. People with very dark pigmentation appear to be dialated all the time resulting in a misread cue. It's why people appear more attactive in dimly lit locations and why people used to use belladonna [wikipedia.org].
I have a (female) friend with very dark (almost black) irises. She is OK looking but she can't keep guys from hitting on her. Even when she makes every attemp
Ancient article just rehashed on a crappy site.. (Score:2)
This isn't "news", you can find articles stating the exact same information from like, 2011. Some due diligence please!
Donuts (Score:3)
I used donuts. After all, just like Crystal Gale was singing: "donuts make my brown eyes blue..."
Do not stare into laser with remaining eye (Score:2)
'nuff said
I''m saving $2500 (Score:2)
See, I'm only going to do one eye. That way I'll look really unusual (or worse terms :-) ) , plus I'll have 2500 to waste on hookers and blow.
Godwin's Law in Force (Score:2)
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Know who would really have loved this - darkeyes: http://coppermind.net/wiki/Nah... [coppermind.net]
Probably a good thing they don't have technology like this, or they'd go crazy. (But in our world, where your caste is *not* determined by the color of your eyes, I'm not sure why anyone would pay for something like this.)
How much for just one eye? (Score:2)
Old news? Similar 2011 article (Score:3)
Here's an article on basically the same thing from 2011:
http://news.discovery.com/huma... [discovery.com]
Is this a new system of doing this, a new group following previous working, just rehashing old news?
Or is it the same group getting a lot closer to being approved for use?
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At $5,000 the price is identical same, as is the fact that it's a Californian company, the newer article just doesn't mention a specific doctors name.
Is this just a slashvertisement ?
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AIUI, the blue is caused by refraction and all other colors by pigments.
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Nope. Only brown eyes are caused directly by pigments. Blue eyes and green eyes actually don't exist per se: there is no blue or green pigment. Blue eyes look blue for the same reason the sky looks blue: Rayleigh scattering. Green eyes, much more rare, are in-between, and don't even look green in certain lights or certain angles.
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The lights/angles/surrounding colors make a difference. I've heard mood does as well, bu
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Dumbass. The $5k is called Return on Investment.
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That's a bit more than return on investment there.
Re:rip off (Score:5, Insightful)
I once charged $1000 equivalent in local currency to walk into a place, press a power button and press Enter and then walk out again (server "wasn't working", whole business was down, told them to try various things, ended up in them requesting and emergency callout, had to move clients around and rush over there, to find that the display on a server wasn't switched on. On the screen, it had "Press Enter to boot from...." message. I pressed Enter. Waited around a bit to ensure that was all that went wrong, charged a day's callout, went home).
It's not the action you take, it's the knowing that the action you take is the correct action to fix things, guaranteed. Back then, I wasn't paid by the hour, or paid by the qualification, or paid by the years of experience, or paid by the number of things I did. I was paid to solve the problem. And solving the problem often needed a whole lot more insight than just pressing a button but often that's what it LOOKED like. "Should we just restore from backup?" Woah, no, hold fire. Let's stop, think. And that stopping and thinking saved my arse on more than a few occasions rather than launching into fixing the symptoms of the problem.
And I bet medical school costs a FUCKING lot of money and the laser costs a FUCKING lots of money and the insurance if you get things wrong costs a FUCKING lot of money and the sterile building full of nurses and other equipment costs a FUCKING lot of money too. Plus, it's cosmetic surgery, so it's profit-based. To be honest, I'm amazed it's that cheap. You can barely get laser correction surgery for that price.
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That depends on where do you live. If you live in a northern country where everybody has blue eyes, you may find them "unremarkable".
I wonder if there are such countries. Here in Finland, most people seem to have greyish eyes with green or blue overtones, but a lot of natives also have very dark eyes, not to mention immigrants. So we do regard blue eyes as somewhat special and attractive -- though we also have "blue-eyed" as a synonym for "gullible".
At school we were taught that the gene for blue eyes is recessive when compared with brown eyes, which might explain the global trend, but it didn't matter either way to our class of 25 sh