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Artificial Retinas Bring Vision Back To The Blind
Patters writes "Researchers from the University of California and the Doheny Eye Institute have successfully implanted a tiny electronic eye implant with a video camera mounted on a pair of sunglasses into 6 patients, allowing them to detect light and motion. The implant is a 4-by-4 grid of electrodes which connects to damaged photoreceptors (rods and cones) on the patient's retina. It works by stimulating the photoreceptors, transmitting signals through the optic nerve to the brain. The implant only works on patients with degenerated rods and cones, and is named after Argus, the Greek god which had 100 eyes. If the implants continue to be a success, the artificial retinas could be available to the public within the next 3 years."
This is just pathetic.
wow, and I thought 640 x 480 was low resolution.
"Is this just useless, or is it expensive as well?"
It's not a dupe... it's for the OTHER eye.
Bill
It's my Sig and you can't have it. Mine! All Mine!
If it runs on Linux im willing to poke an eye out just to get one! :D
You mean it's an unworkable fantasy dreamed up by conservatives who smoke pot?
Sounds about right to me.
people blind from birth will not be able to use this to see. Their brains havn't even developed the "code" to interpret the optic nerve signals.
Hopefully scientists will be able to find a way of stimulating the areas of the brain to develop this "code".
Then the people blind from birth will be able to sing I can see clearly now my brain has grown.
SCNR.
Don't forget about the spam.