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There are a hundred kinds of awesome in this photograph.

This is the description from BW Jones:

An image of a bionic brain implant chip taken through the microscope with my iPhone.

BW Jones is a scientist at the University of Utah:

Retinal neurophysiology scientist. My work involves disorders of retinal degeneration and how those diseases affect the intrinsic retinal circuitry including the implications for rescue of vision via gene therapy, and retinal bionic or biological implants.

Since he works with brain implants all the time, it’s probably not a big deal to see one in person, but for the rest of us, just seeing what they look like is awesome. The fact that he took the photo by sticking his iPhone up to a microscope, is ten kinds of awesome.