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LULEÅ, Sweden – An electric wheelchair that uses a laser scanner to create a 3-D map of its surroundings and transfers the information to a haptic robot, enabling a visually impaired driver to navigate around obstacles, has been successfully tested. The...
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Sept, 23, 2009 – Inspired by the success of cochlear implants that can restore hearing to some deaf people, researchers at MIT are developing a retinal implant that could one day help blind people regain a useful level of vision. The eye implant is designed for...
Seeing Machine for the Blind
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Jan. 14, 2009 – A visually challenged MIT poet has unveiled a “seeing machine” that allows some people who are blind or visually challenged to be able to see. Elizabeth Goldring, also an artist and a senior fellow at MIT’s Center for Advanced Visual Studies, began...
Eye Implants for Cats Could Help Blind Humans See
COLUMBIA, Mo., Jan. 17, 2007 -- Tiny eye implants that allow the blind to see have mainly been confined to the realm of science fiction, but now preliminary studies using a microchip implant to help blind cats "see" holds promise for improving impaired human sight as well....
Photoswitches Eyed for Sight Restoration
BERKELEY, Calif., Nov. 3, 2006 -- Light-sensitive optical switches that could be placed into a retina and turned on and off easily are being eyed as a way to restore sight by making blind nerve cells "see." A major goal of the UC Berkeley-LBNL Nanomedicine Development Center, a...
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