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by sp332 4790 days ago
Oh yeah, I was avoiding augmented vision like Steve Mann's headgear, which enables HDR vision as well as making some IR and UV visible. http://spectrum.ieee.org/geek-life/profiles/steve-mann-my-au... New cell types would be awesome, but you can already (very faintly) see polarization of light. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haidinger%27s_brush
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So THAT'S what that is!

I can see it, have done for as long as I can remember. That's super neat!

I always thought it was just an error in my eyes themselves not handling light properly