Doris Ekblad-Olson, 82, of Colorado is the first person to receive CentraSight, an experimental optical implant: Ekblad-Olson suffers from "wet" macular degeneration, an end-stage form of the common, chronic disease, wh...
http://www.neatorama.com/2012/07/20/surgery-turns-womans-eye-into-a-telescope/
Brandon Keim writes in Wired that scientists are getting closer to reconstructing images that duplicate what the brain actually sees through visual input. Though it's not actually brain-reading, it's a small step in tha...
http://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/28/seeing-what-the-brain-sees/
Priya Ganapati writes in Wired that researchers at MIT are developing an eye implant that can feed visual imput past damaged cells and directly into the brain. Patients will wear a camera that downloads images into the...
http://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/24/an-artificial-eye-for-the-blind/
Katherine Harmon writes in Scientific American that a Mississippi woman blind for the past nine years can see 20/70 after one of her own teeth was surgically implanted in one of her eyes: To begin the months-long proc...
http://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/17/blind-woman-can-see-again-after-a-tooth-is-implanted-in-her-eye/
Image: Raygun Studio Babak A. Parviz, a bionanotechnologist at the University of Washington, writes that in the future, biotech innovations could lead to display screens inside contact lenses: These visions (if I m...
http://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/03/eye-augmentation-in-the-future/
VisionCare Ophthalmic Technologies, a biotech start-up, has developed a tiny telescope that has can implanted into the eyes of people suffering from macular degeration: Last week, an advisory panel for the Food and Dr...
http://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/21/a-miniature-telescope-implanted-in-the-eye/
