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Re: artificial vision for the blind... or is it?

From: Robin Lee Powell <>
Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2003 13:43:27 -0700

On Sat, Jun 28, 2003 at 05:06:55AM -0400, Francois wrote:
> 
> being bored the other day and watching ripley's believe it or
> not... i came across this:
> 
> http://www.dobelle.com/
> 
> apparently this is last year's news on cnn and wired, but i'd not
> heard of it before nor seen mention of it on the list.  
> 
> basically they drill a hole in the skull, toss in some electrodes
> which connect to a jack going to a wearable going to a glasses
> mounted camera.

It does work, but it's *very* low res.

-Robin

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