Attempts to Restore Vision

Researchers worldwide are trying to find ways to use electronics to improve visual recognition.

clipped from www.wired.com Bionic Vision Australia, has developed a device called the wide-view neurostimulator Bionic Vision Australia uses an external camera An electrode array is implanted in the eye and that connects to the central part of the retina where the greatest number of retinal neurons are present An external unit has vision-processing software to help generate the electrical impulses. The resultant vision is not the same as the images that a sighted person sees it’s a pixelated version with a relatively small number of dots: about 100 in early versions team hope to do the first human implant in 2013 groups in Germany and Japan are working on similar projects clipped from www.wired.com MIT work on a retinal implant that can bypass damaged cells and directly offer visual input to the brain It won’t entirely restore normal vision, say the researchers, but it will offer just enough sight to help a blind person navigate a room The eyeball holds a microchip encased in a sealed titanium case clipped from review.ucsc.edu Wentai Liu clipped from www.wired.com The Dobelle artificial vision system