Holy juxtaposed headlines. For a second there I thought they were using revived retinas to make chocolate. I like mine dark and zombie-free, thanks.

This needs a little more explanation. I can't get chocolate from the current headline ...

Seems the headline (original, not just here) refers to one piece of research, but the article is a transcription of a podcast that discusses that among other research (like 3D printing chocolate).

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oh, I see the link now ... ok in the article/page not the headline itself.

This reminds of the scene from Wild, Wild West where they use a special lens to project what it was that a dead scientist saw right when he died.

Yep, that was one of the latest uses, there was a classic movie by Dario Argento (1971):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Flies_on_Grey_Velvet

that used the same theory/approach in the plot, it is called optography:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optography

and its first use (in a movie) was 1936.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optography#Optography_in_ficti...

Greg Egan's distress has something similar although in that situation it's not just the retinas. All the organs are revived to make the person who died "alive" for a short while to help the police identify the culprit

I think in one of the Lord Darcy crime mysteries they used a magic spell to reveal the last thing a murder victim saw.

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why mention this, the need to post a comment cannot possibly be stronger than the decency to not spoil anything in a comment system that doesn't even have spoiler tags. Just delete that comment =)

Spoiling a movie from 1999?

No, game from 20 years later.

Also in one of the Robocop movies iirc.

Literally the only good thing about this movie existing was that it made the punchline at the end of Kevin Smith's Superman/Tim Burton story so much funnier.

The spider mecha was very cool. That's all I remember, but what more does a movie need?