Physicists and eye doctors design a 'bionic eye'
We’re all getting older, and many of us will suffer from some alteration of our sense of vision. We might be one day affected by age-related macular degeneration (AMD), which causes blindness to 700,000 people in the Western world every year. But now, ophthalmologists and physicists at Stanford University have teamed up to design a ’bionic eye’.
This system works like some ’virtual reality’ devices. A little video camera is mounted on transparent goggles allowing for simultaneous use of remaining natural vision. Images from the camera are processed by a microcomputer and projected on the retina.
The ’bionic eye’ which also includes a solar-powered battery implanted in the iris, is currently tested with rats, but human testing could start within three years.
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