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That's almost reason to get a smart phone just by itself.... but I'm going to wait for the DNA hack (http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/09/colortherapy/). I don't want to have to remember to point a phone at something to distinguish colors; I want to upgrade my damn retinas.

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Gene therapy makes me nervous every since it killed that random kid. Looks like there's some checksumming going on?

Link?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesse_Gelsinger

Well, the kid's liver was already questionable and the immune system can really go haywire with stuff like that. And those guys circumvented the animal studies (monkeys died and they didn't feel like slowing down because they had a financial interest in a good outcome).

I just want to see this damn thing you all call purple. If it really exists.

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