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LEDs Make Better Artificial Eyes

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Richard Gaughan

The circumstances surrounding the loss of an eye can be traumatic physically, but the trauma doesn't end there. Besides learning to cope with the loss of a primary sense organ, people also worry about their appearance. An ocular prosthetic, or artificial eye, can create a more natural appearance, but it does not move as the lost eye would. A system under development by researchers in Canada, however, will allow an artificial eye to track the movement of its functioning counterpart. An eyeglasses-mounted, LED-based tracking system under development by researchers at the University of...Read full article

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