Scientists create artificial retina on a chip

[chera]

Scientists at the University of Pennsylvania have developed a new silicon chip that could be "embedded directly into the eye and connected to the nerves that carry signals to the brain's visual cortex," reports New Scientist.

Previous attempts at artificial sight have often gone the route of using a video camera usually connected to a tiny computer to process the signal, which is then attached to the optic nerve. If Penn's research works, it would let this chip be directly implanted into the eye - with a direct connection to the optic nerve - removing the need for an external camera.

I think both approaches are valid.  Artificial retinas for people with retinitis pigmentosa and detached retinas, and the addition of info directly onto the optical nerve for people who want Neuromancer-style VR or literal HUDs.

[MooCow]

i read this thread as "Scientists create artificial reina on a chip "

lol

[Kira-sama]

i read this thread as "Scientists create artificial reina on a chip "

lol

a chip that gives us the potentials of reina that we, human beings don't have?