Boy With Blue Night-Vision Eyes Found in China

Nong Youhui from China has the strange ability which allows him to see perfectly in the dark. Not only has that, his blue eyes glow in the darkness like those of a cat. The father of the boy noticed that his son’s eyes glowed in the dark. So he went to a hospital in Dahua, Southern China for consultation. After examining the wonder kid Nong Youhui, ­doctors were surprised with his exceptional feature.

Born in the Chinese region of Guangxi, Nong Youhui can read in complete darkness and sees as clearly as most people do during the day. He is also known or nicknamed as ‘Cat Boy’ due to this anomaly.

However, some experts believe he was born with a rare condition called leukodermia which has left his eyes with less protective pigment and more sensitive to light.


George Dvorky writes of :

Add this mutation to the list of transhumanist must-haves: Boy’s Eyes Glow In The Dark, See In Night Vision. I'm thinking it's a kind of saltation (or macromutation) that was the result of several fortuitous genetic mutations. That said, the set of mutations required for such a trait can't be too complex, otherwise it would have never arisen spontaneously. This is good news as we may eventually be able to use genetic technologies to deliberately create such a condition ourselves.