Scimex: Stanford University researchers have developed a wireless retinal implant that they say
could restore vision five times better than existing devices. Results in
rat studies suggest it could provide functional vision to patients with
retinal degenerative diseases, such as retinitis pigmentosa or macular
degeneration. "The
performance we're observing at the moment is very encouraging," said
Georges Goetz, a lead author of the paper and graduate student in
electrical engineering at Stanford. "Based on our current results, we
hope that human recipients of this implant will be able to recognize
objects and move about."
