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You may recall Rob Spence, known online as the Eyeborg project working for his Bionic eye. We have posted about it earlier and spoke with him some time ago, but the project has progressed to the point where even seasoned tech blogger is left speechless with amazement.
Spence has worked with a team of engineers to adapt an endoscope in the working in camera video connector. He added, waving a magnet near it at some point it will begin transmitting wireless video signal in handheld LCD. Absolutely incredible.
Watch the video from Sky News below, but warned that it's a little graphic. If you can't handle someone add or remove an artificial eye, believe that this is your warning.
Simply amazing, it is even possible. But really, it's more general developments in miniaturization, not Bionic. Endoscopic camera with wireless transmitters are now commonplace; corpus and ergonomics device would be difficult to part of this Assembly. What remains to be done with the artificial eye connection so effectively for the visual cortex, and it is still light years away from the practical — at least for the production of any component. Existing arrays of cortical microelectrode simply don't have the density is required and consequently produce something only freely definable as an image.
Timing of this new information is part of a MEDIA push for new Deus Ex game (GameStop infamy), Cybernetics and artificial figure prominently, which does not detract from the wonder stuff, in my opinion. They also produced a short documentary about prosthetics and research in this area, which is worth watching. This is a very exciting field, and the best bit is that they create things that really improve people's lives. Prosthetic eye a long way to go, but these are people with enthusiasm and dedication, as Spence and his team, to drive innovation, regardless of how far from the final product can be.
Additional information can be found on the home page of the project Eyeborg.
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