GI's night vision goggles in trials to help blind
From: EE Times - 10/03/2005 - page 47
By: Chappell Brown

Developed by the military, infrared night vision is now being reworked to
cure some blindness. 

Engineers at the Naval Research Laboratory will soon begin clinical trials of
a 3,200-pixel retinal implant that could restore moderate vision to certain
blind patients. Today's state-of-the-art retinal prosthesis is a 16-pixel
device that has been implanted in patients at the Doheny Eye Institute at the
Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California. 

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Links:
Naval Research Laboratory
http://www.nrl.navy.mil/

Doheny Eye Institute
http://www.usc.edu/hsc/doheny/

Keck School of Medicine
http://www.usc.edu/hsc/index.html