Bionic Eye
Scientists have designed a bionic eye that will allow blind people to see again.
It consists of a computer chip that sits in the back of the individual's eye, linked up to a mini video camera built into glasses that they wear. Images captured by the camera are beamed to the chip, which translates them into impulses that the brain can interpret.
Although the images produced by the artificial eye are far from perfect, they could be clear enough to allow someone who is otherwise blind to recognise faces.
Human trials will begin within a year.
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It consists of a computer chip that sits in the back of the individual's eye, linked up to a mini video camera built into glasses that they wear. Images captured by the camera are beamed to the chip, which translates them into impulses that the brain can interpret.
Although the images produced by the artificial eye are far from perfect, they could be clear enough to allow someone who is otherwise blind to recognise faces.
Human trials will begin within a year.
eye vision blindness technology science bionics artificial vision Johns Hopkins eyes computers furturism medicine health macular degeneration
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