Reading that cold, you might think I’m trying to play some kind of cruel joke on people who can’t see what I’ve written anyway.  But no, it’s true–there’s a group who have patients in the United States, Mexico and Europe, and they’ve been working to develop a surgically-implanted camera array.  MIT isn’t the only ones out to get in on this!

The group is launching off on a three year long test effort involving surgically implanted electrodes in the eyes connected to a camera that the surgery recipient wears on the bridge of the nose.  The images from the camera are then routed through a video processor worn on the waist.  All of this in sequence combines to give the blind the ability to see.

And early testing has proven to be working out well so far.  Check out the results:

Some of the 37 other participants further along in the project can differentiate plates from cups, tell grass from sidewalk, sort white socks from dark, distinguish doors and windows, identify large letters of the alphabet, and see where people are, albeit not details about them.

Not bad for people who started out blind, huh?

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