In the first grade, I remember thinking how big the second graders were. I looked up to them, we all did. I wanted to be one of them. I desperately wanted to wear Karl Kukta’s Mighty Mouse jean jacket, win at dodge ball and get Ashley Dillehay to talk to me.
But I couldn’t. I was only a little first grader.
I found myself perusing, as I often do, Gizmodo.com when I stumbled upon an article, which very much held my curiosity. It regarded a patent that had been filed by an optical engineer at USC who had pioneered a method for implanting nanotech cameras into people’s eyes:
“…a better idea is to implant the camera directly within the eye, but avoiding the retina.
[Michelle Hauer] and colleagues have come up with a design that is small enough to be implanted within the lens of the eye, and takes into account the effect of the cornea on incoming light.
The device transmits images to a chip at the back of the eye, which passes the image signals on to the nerve cells.”
In layman’s terms they figured out how to make the blind see.
Loading ...