That next step apparently involve dribbling 50 microliters of Ce6 into human guinea pig Gabriel Licina's conjunctival sacs (the part of the eye that transports chemicals into the retina) which gave him the ability to effectively see in the dark at distances up to 50 meters -- at least for a little while. Lincea describes initially being able to first spot shapes the size of his hand, then written symbols and moving objects at a distance of 10 meters. At 50 meters, Lincia could easily find find people standing still in front of trees. In fact he spotted them every single time while a control group was successful only about 30 percent of the time.

Now, while the Science for the Masses team did its homework before this experiment you have to remember this is a far cry from knocking back a few drops of Visine. In short, please don't go injecting stuff into your eyeballs all willy-nilly in an attempt to recreate this effect for yourself.

[Image Credit: Science for the Masses]