Good news for the people who are visually aided with Retinitis Pigmentosa or otherwise known as Night Blindness or Tunnel Vision. It is a tiny implantable microchip permitted patients, who had given up on seeing again to read a clock or identify daily objects. The wafer-thin device is to be implanted for the first time in University of Oxford and London, with surgery scheduled within weeks, the Daily Mail reported. Most of the middle-aged patients were to be treated for retinitis pigmentosa. A microchip packed with 1,500 light sensors is implanted to the back of the eye. The sensors convert light to electrical signals, which stimulate nerves in the retina to pass down signals to optic nerve which would gap into the brain to form an image. Technology varies with different Universities and researchers worldwide are trying to find ways to use electronics to improve visual recognition. Last year, MIT announced it had developed a chip implant that could restore ...
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