We ’re strolling into Star Trek district here , common people , and there ’s no turning back . investigator at the University of Southern California and the Doheny Retina Institute have created a prosthetic retina that can allow the blind to detect abstemious / motion and identify objects . We ’ve seen a few of these matter before using photosensors addict up to a few trenchant nerves which let for a very strange form of synaesthesia that give some swooning predisposition but these things go a bit more powerful .
They ’re not going to be driving any clip soon ( although I think reading of an earlier , similar project where the affected role did repulse around ) , but to be able-bodied to “ figure out the spacial predilection of a bar or the chapiter letter fifty - with 61 to 80 pct accuracy ” is awe-inspiring .
Six previously unreasoning patients find light , gesture , describe objects with retinal prostheses[EurekaAlert ]
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