To See Anew
From: IEEE Pulse - 05/17/2017
By: Kristina Grifantini

New technologies are moving rapidly toward restoring or enabling vision in
the blind.

A burgeoning area of research involves restoring vision using technology in
place of the diseased or dysfunctional part of the eye. In healthy eyes, rods
and cones in a retina transfer light signals to electrical signals that pass
through the optic nerve to the brain. Bionic eyes aim to function as the
damaged part of the eye: for example, by using implanted computer chips to
transform light signals into electrical signals the brain can still read or,
potentially even more effective, bypassing the eye entirely and sending
visually coded signals directly to the brain.

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