Today, I am going to tell you my greatest fear.
In short, it is being crushed to death by a huge boulder…
But allow me to explain where this bizarre fear came from.
You see, as a child, I read Lord of the Flies by William Golding. It is the dystopian tale of a dozen or so teenagers getting stranded on a deserted island, and slowly turning into monsters while they try to survive. It is one of the most chilling looks at human nature itself, and remains one of my favorite books to this day.
But one character in particular always haunted me: his name was Piggy. He was the only boy on the island who desperately needed glasses in order to survive. Piggy was nearly blind, and could barely see an inch in front of his face.
His glasses were his lifeline…
After desperation set in, one boy on the island steals Piggy’s glasses in order to start a fire. He is rendered blind. Since he can no longer see, he is completely vulnerable to the rogue group of crazed boys.
Towards the end of the book, Roger — the most sadistic boy on the island — rolls a huge boulder off of a cliff, crushing the hapless Piggy to death. He never saw it coming.
Hence my fear.
You see, I’ve had terrible astigmatism since I was a kid and — without my glasses — I can barely make out a person’s face a couple feet in front of me. If I found myself on a deserted island, I would be Piggy.
There are few things less terrifying than being unable to see your surroundings. Now, I’m only legally blind… I can still see just fine with the aid of contacts or glasses. I cannot begin to imagine what life would be like with no vision at all. Thankfully, that may be a relic of the past.
Lord of the Flies is an allusion to Satan himself. But thankfully we have a savior who I want to introduce you to today. I call him The Lord of the Eyes. He may have just created the device that will end the scourge of blindness once and for all.
Alfred Mann is a living legend. While he may not be a household name, he has always been at the forefront of major medical device technology. Since 1956, he has been revolutionizing not only the medical device field, but the semiconductor and aerospace industries as well.
“His passion, as he’s gotten older, is to try to eradicate as many terrible medical conditions as he can within his lifetime,” David Hankin, chief executive of the Alfred Mann Foundation told the L.A. Times.
“He had this amazing passion and gleam in his eye. His mind is as sharp as it’s ever been. I think he wakes up thinking about new devices every day.”
Here’s a small sample of some of the other breakthroughs he has originated:
- He spearheaded the cochlear implant that enables deaf people to hear
- He was instrumental in creating a rechargeable pacemaker
- He helped develop an insulin pump that transformed the treatment of diabetes
- He created a device that allows amputees to control prosthetic fingers with their brains.
Long story short, this is an unbelievably smart man, and now he has his sights set on allowing the blind to see.
His new invention will be able to restore sight to people who were born blind, or those who have been rendered blind by macular degeneration or glaucoma. All told, he could help restore sight to over 40 million people around the world.
“I get so much satisfaction out of helping people,” Mann has said. “It’s not for money.”
That may be, but the money is piling up around Mann’s inventions. That is why you are reading about him in an investment letter. Because, aside from the gifts to humanity that he has bestowed upon us, he has also made investors a stunning amount of money…
Mann has become a billionaire twice over from his earth-shattering discoveries.
- His first company, Spectrolab Inc., improved guidance system technology for missiles. His second company, Heliotek Corp., designed solar cells for spaceships. Both were sold in 1960 for what would be $80 million today.
- His pacemaker company was sold to Siemens for $150 million
- The company he founded to manufacture his cochlear implant was sold to Boston Scientific for $740 million
- His patented inhalable insulin for diabetics was licensed to French pharmaceutical company Sanofi for $935 million
- Mann’s automatic insulin pump company MiniMed was sold to Medtronic for $3 billion
All told, he has founded 17 companies — nine of which have been acquired for a whopping total of $8 billion. That’s a hell of a track record, and his latest device has the potential to be the biggest one of all. This is a rare opportunity to own what holds the potential to be one of the most important discoveries of our time… as well as one the most lucrative.
You can read all the details in our brand new report, “Blinding Gains from the “Bionic Eye” Breakthrough” (exclusively available to Nick Hodge’s Early Advantage subsribers).
Claim your copy right now, before this company is also snapped up by a huge biotech company.
So if my greatest fear ever comes to pass, at least I’ll see the boulder coming…
