Bionic eye being developed in Australia
APR 30, 2012
DOI: 10.1063/PT.5.026014
Daily Mail : Researchers at Monash University in Australia are working on a bionic eye to restore vision to the clinically blind. The device consists of a pair of glasses with a tiny camera that acts as the retina, a pocket processor for converting the video into electrical signals, and a microchip implanted directly on the surface of the patient’s visual cortex. The microchip comprises up to 14 tiny tiles, each containing half a million transistors and 45 hair-thin electrodes. When fully operational, the tiles will receive low-resolution black-and-white images rendered by the camera’s external processing unit. The group began testing a prototype earlier this month and expects to begin testing it on humans in the next year or so.
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