New Bionic Eye: Infrared Light-Powered Retina Implant Coming From: IEEE Spectrum - 04/28/2015 By: Eliza Strickland The visual prosthetic from Pixium Vision will use goggles to record images and beam them into the eye in infrared. A tiny chip sits behind the retina, the part of the eye that contains the photoreceptor cells that respond to the light of the world by triggering electric pulses in other cells. Those pulses are part of a chain reaction that sends information up the optic nerve to the brain. In certain retinal diseases, the photoreceptor cells die off, but the remaining relay cells are undamaged. Different visual prostheses target different cells within this system for electrical stimulation. Read the entire article at: http://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/biomedical/bionics/blind-patients-will-soon-try-a-new-bionic-eye Links: SecondSight http://www.2-sight.com Pixium Vision http://www.pixium-vision.com/en Retinal AG http://www.retina-implant.de/en/default.aspx Bionic Vision http://bionicvision.org.au