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This story is from the category Sensors
Date posted: 28/07/2007 Miniature photodiode chips are perhaps most commonly found in your mobile phone cameras; but seven people have been carrying the chips somewhere else - in their eyes. The volunteers, who lost their sight through an eye disease called retinitis pigmentosa, took part in a medical trail in Germany. Light-sensitive chips developed by the firm Retina Implant, were surgically implanted into their eyes allowing signals to be sent to the brain through the optic nerve and partial sight to return. See the full Story via external site: news.bbc.co.uk Most recent stories in this category (Sensors): 22/05/2013: New study finds blind people have the potential to u se their ‘inner bat’ to locate objects |
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