Links ARCHIVE: BBC News - Enabling The Blind To See

US scientists have designed a bionic eye to allow blind people to see again.

Published on April 5, 2005 By joeKnowledge In Pure Technology

SOURCE: BBC News

Bionic eye will let the blind see

It comprises a computer chip that sits in the back of the individual's eye, linked up to a mini video camera built into glasses that they wear.

Images captured by the camera are beamed to the chip, which translates them into impulses that the brain can interpret.

The device has been designed by Professor Gislin Dagnelie at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore.

Professor Dagnelie unveiled details at a Royal National Institute for the Blind conference in London on Monday.

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