MIT’s eye implant could restore vision in blind
Just yesterday we updated you on the bionic lens that visions to get the computer into the eye. It’ll only be an add-on to the human‘s effort to go superhuman, but to actually let a blind see again - MIT may be working the way out. We’ve seen a tooth implant restore vision in this case, but here MIT researchers are doing it differently – this, with a microchip implant into the eyeball to replace the damaged cells and direct the visual input straight to the brain.
The implant they believe, wouldn’t be a full proof solution, yet will be powerful enough to at least let the visual impaired navigate the room through site and not just sense. Post implant, the patient would be required to wear camera equipped specially made glasses that work as a normal eye sending the images to the brain via the microchip.
With the entire coordination of the coils on the glasses and electrodes on the microchip useful visual images are delivered to the brain, which interprets and lets user see the surrounding. The researchers’ objective is to produce a chip that can be implanted for at least 10 years.
Via: GadgetLab
