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[Mind]

Some times I am just amazed at how progress continues inexorably (despite all the doom and gloom and depression that flows constantly from the main stream media). Little by little the futuristic technological predictions of the last couple of decades continue to come true. We are getting more and more realistic artificial replacements for our body parts. Here is a story about a new silicon retina that mimics the real human retina.

[Mind]

And now getting closer to an artificial eye.

For many blind or partially sighted people, implants that stimulate healthy nerve cells connected to their retinas could help restore some normal vision. Researchers have been working on such implants since the 1980s but with only limited success. A major hurdle is making an implant that can stay in the eye for years without declining in performance or causing inflammation.

Now researchers with the Boston Retinal Implant Project, which was spun out of MIT, Harvard Medical School, and the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary in 1988, have developed hardware they say overcomes such issues. The implants have been tested in animals, and the group plans to start human trials by 2010.

[Luna]

Very nice!
I will be more impressed when they can do it from stem cells and improve human visions, as it seems this is not quite "seeing".
But soon it will evolve and we will probably replace our eyes.. hopefully.

Edited by Winterbreeze, 03 October 2008 - 01:53 PM.