Johns Hopkins Lab Receives Funding to Develop Retinal Prosthesis
From: Medical Design Technology - 01/15/2015

The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL), in Laurel,
Maryland, has received $4 million in funding from the Mann Fund to develop a
next-generation retinal prosthesis system.

APL will be developing the next-generation glasses with embedded vision and
eye tracking sensors. Using these sensors and onboard hardware, the system
will identify potential obstacles, doorways, hallways, and household objects
and their relative positions. This information will be distilled into a
format that can be projected into the retinal prosthesis, bypassing the
damaged rods and cones in the retina.

Read the entire article and view a video about HARMONIE (3:30) at:
http://www.mdtmag.com/news/2015/01/johns-hopkins-lab-receives-funding-develop-retinal-prosthesis
http://www.jhuapl.edu/newscenter/pressreleases/2015/150114.asp

Links:
Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab Receives $4 Million to Develop a Retinal
  Prosthesis 
http://www.newswise.com/articles/johns-hopkins-applied-physics-lab-receives-4-million-to-develop-a-retinal-prosthesis

HARMONIE
http://engineering.jhu.edu/ece/research-projects/harmonie-a-hybrid-augmented-reality-multimodal-operation-neural-integration-environment/

Revolutionizing Prosthetics Program
http://www.jhuapl.edu/prosthetics/

RoboSally
http://www.jhuapl.edu/newscenter/stories/st130102.asp