Bionic eye breakthrough
US company Second Sight have developed a bionic eye system that allows a man who has been blind for 30 years to see flashes of light:
He says he can now follow white lines on the road, and even sort socks, using the bionic eye, known as Argus II. It uses a camera and video processor mounted on sunglasses to send captured images wirelessly to a tiny receiver on the outside of the eye.
The Argus II is designed to help sufferers of retinitis pigmentosa, a degenerative eye condition.
[article form the BBC][image from Mazintosh - Fotogranada on flickr]
Tags: bioengineering, bionic, bionics, biotechnology, blindness, cyborg, cyborgs, eye, health, medicine
March 4th, 2009 at 3:18 pm
If there was ever an “sf idea comes true” moment, this would be it.
March 5th, 2009 at 1:20 am
This is fantastic.