Yes, but only if you are very flexible.

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1: The article date is March 31st.

2: The article itself is about making a potential 'cyber-eye' which has an ultra thin artificial diamond coating to protect it from exposure to the body. There is nothing joking about the article it's completly serious.

it depends where in the world you live, according to my timezone, atleast the forum post is posted on april1st.

Yeah, but that's irrelevant. The actual date on the article byline itself is March 31st.

Shadowrun's Dikoting's deposition process is either one of two things:

1) It's obsolete, but the writers didn't do their home work. In real life, the high-temperature microwave/methane deposition method was out of date years ago. It's descendents and entirely new methods of diamond deposition are in use.

2) It's the kind of processing necessary to get the properties of Dikote. Not all diamond films have equal properties - that's even mentioned in the article - and the properties are definitely dependent on the process. Perhaps the properties of the Dikoting (in particular) can only be achieved with high temperature processes, while the corrosion-resistant coating used on the article's "bionic eye" could be deposited at much lower temperatures (but said coating won't have the wear or impact protection of Dikoting.)

Therefore, if the writers want, they still have justification for keeping Dikoting as a high temperature process. Or they can lower it. But they aren't obligated to lower it.

And if they want to lower the Dikoting processing temperature, that won't necessarily help lower temperature materials - like plastic. Materials with low Young's moduli (stiffness), like plastics or aluminum, or materials with a large thermal expansion mismatch compared to diamond would probably flake the Dikoting off quickly.

Not all blindness comes from the same source. If the person was blinded because of, say, a stroke in the optical cortex, new eyes won't help.

But it stands to help a lot of people.

In Man & Machine (for SR3) and in Shadowtech (for SR1).

From what I'm reading out of the Journal of Opthalmology, it looks like about half of blindness in adults is caused by cataracts, and about a quarter due to "reversible" (read: The above "cybereyes" can possibly help) retinal degeneration (such as macular degeneration and diabetic retinopathy). Another quarter is in a nebulous "other" category. So it stands to help about a quarter of the population of blind folks. One scary statistic is that the incidence of blindness has risen by 70% from 1990 to 2000, and 937,000 Americans (according to the 2000 census) are currently blind, with 2.4 million more with "impaired eyesight".

well i think the chrome label comes from stuff like cyberlimbs that would use stuff like aliminium, titanium, carbonfibre and so on. then you forgo the imitation skin and instead chrome it

Somebody over there has been watching WAAAY too many Battletech movies/stories/manga. That thing looks like it would fall over at a small gust of wind....or when it fires it's gatling gun on the side. And once it fell over, it becomes a nice useless sculpture that can fire bullets if it's lucky. (No self-righting mechanism)