The next steps in Bionics
05/03/2012
BBC Health News published Two blind British men have electronic retinas fitted this week, and it prompted me to re-post an article from last October, which includes a very good video by CBS News that hinted at electronic retinas. Now it’s starting to happen. I’ll let you follow the link above for details but encourage you to watch the video below for a sense of what technology is enabling for people with disabilities, as well as those who just want to enhance their abilities.
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.
Related presentation at TedMED: Neuroscientist developing non-surgical artificial retina to potentially reverse some types of blindness … http://youtu.be/qQcrXOhdLvw
BBC Health News reports that Two blind British men have electronic retinas fitted.