Bionic Vision will restore lost vision

New Technology
Written by team josh
Tuesday, 22 April 2008
If you have lost your vision due to any mighty dieses, there is a news for you. A new invention is coming which may restore your vision back to normal. This technique uses an external camera worn on a pair of dark glasses. The camera sends images to a radio receiver implanted near the eye, which transmits a signal on to a tiny silicon and platinum chip that sits on the retina. This information then goes down the optic nerve into the brain. Scientist Dr Mark Humayun has developed a small and powerful camera that could be implanted inside a patient’s eye, rather than worn on a pair of glasses. The team led by Dr Mark Humayun - a professor of ophthalmology and biomedical engineering at the Doheny Eye Institute in Los Angeles – have now developed a small and powerful camera that could be implanted inside the patient’s eye, rather than worn on a pair of glasses. “The camera is very, very small and very low power, so it can go inside your eye and couple your eye movement to where the camera is,” said Dr Humayun. “With this kind of missing information, the brain can fill in. This field is really blossoming.” “So in the next four to five years I hope, and we all hope, that we will see technology that’s much more advanced,” he added. Set as favorite Bookmark Email This Hits: 156 Trackback(0) TrackBack URI for this entry Comments (0) Subscribe to this comment's feed Write comment Name Website Comment smaller \| bigger Subscribe via email (Registered users only) I have read and agree to the Terms of Usage. Write the displayed characters
Last Updated ( Tuesday, 22 April 2008 )