Implant Translates Written Words To Braille, Right On the Retina

Posted by timothy on Friday November 23, 2012 @04:09PM from the downright-amazing dept.

An anonymous reader writes "For the first time, blind people could read street signs with a device that translates letters into Braille and beams the results directly onto a person's eye." According to the article, "In a trial conducted on a single patient who already used the [predecessor] device, the person was able to correctly read Braille letters up to 89 percent of the time, and most of the inaccuracy appeared when the participant misread a single letter. The user was able to read one word a second."

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Suck it, Apple by Stormwatch · 2012-11-23 20:00 · Score: 5, Funny

Now THIS is a retina display!

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Re:a trial of one by Anonymous Coward · 2012-11-23 23:11 · Score: 5, Funny

i think we need a double blind study before we can be certain.