The next steps in Bionics
10/09/2011
Step by step, bionic engineers are transforming lives in ways that barely could have been imagined until recently.
This CBS News story is about bionic limbs that replace wheelchairs, retinal implants that bring sight to the blind, and synthetic telepathy that reads thoughts and transmits them electronically through a computer and wireless network to control bionics or communicate without formal language.
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Neuroscientist developing non-surgical artificial retina to potentially reverse some types of blindness … http://youtu.be/qQcrXOhdLvw
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