Tuesday, May 15, 2012

New Bionic Eye from Stanford University

Researcher holding bionic eye.
"While the visually impaired may look towards glasses, contact lenses and in extreme cases even transplants, blindness, cataracts or any of the other degenerative diseases of the eye have never been fully cured, science and medicine so far generating corrective if not preventive measures," according to All Voices. "The latest advances in medical sciences has seen the increasing use of using less static technologies like corrective lenses and upgrading them to combine them with electrical circuits, creating, in its best description, a bionic eye. And researchers at Stanford University in California have created just that, a bionic eye which not only helps the visually impaired to see but is also powered by light." Read more.

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