Bionic Eyes Plug into the Brain -VIDEO

[zengrifter]

Bionic Eyes Plug Directly into the Brain


By Charles Q. Choi
Special to LiveScience
posted: 27 April 2007
09:05 am ET


Researchers have set their sights on bypassing the normal routes of bionics to hook video cameras
deep into the brain, allowing the blind to see. The bionic eye system has already proved promising in monkeys.

The goal is to one day provide vision for blind people using twin video cameras worn as a pair of glasses that
transmit signals wirelessly to an implant in the brain.



Decades of studies have tried to develop prostheses that restore sight. One approach generates images
by electrically stimulating healthy neurons in the retina, the light-sensitive tissue lining the inner eyeball,
and thus mimic the effects of inbound light. The other aims to electrically stimulate cells in the cortex, the
outer layer of the brain where visual signals are processed.

...more - http://www.livescience.com/humanbiol...ionic_eye.html

VIDEO - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0NBdcPibNzM

[sagefr0g]

encourageing news for me. i have a son who lost an eye in a car accident.
with this type of research and as young as he is there appears to be hope.
appreciate the article Zen.