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Ever since Google’s announcement of the launch of its first smart glasses, wearable technologies have been all the rage. However, far from being mere futurist accessories, some of these products incorporate state-of-the-art technology and can bring about real improvements in people’s lives.
After twenty years of research, California-based company Second Sight has developed a pair of glasses which, coupled with a prosthesis implanted on to the retina, enable some blind people to rediscover a degree of physical independence. The product, known as Argus II, is the first-ever retinal prosthesis to be granted market approval by the FDA for patients in the United States. The artificial retina sends messages through the optic nerve to the brain, allowing people who have lost their sight due to deterioration of the retina to regain partial sight, recovering in particular their sensitivity to contours, colours and contrasts. The medical device is designed to make people who suffer from this type of blindness more independent in their daily lives, and the researchers also hope to extend the system to help those suffering from degenerative blindness linked to old age and even people blind from birth.
For the first time the United States
Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved a retinal prosthesis
that is able to restore some degree of sight to people suffering from
certain types of blindness. The new technology allows them to orient
themselves in a room, negotiate city sidewalks, and might even one day
even enable them to read.
Ever since Google’s announcement of the launch of its first smart glasses, wearable technologies have been all the rage. However, far from being mere futurist accessories, some of these products incorporate state-of-the-art technology and can bring about real improvements in people’s lives.
After twenty years of research, California-based company Second Sight has developed a pair of glasses which, coupled with a prosthesis implanted on to the retina, enable some blind people to rediscover a degree of physical independence. The product, known as Argus II, is the first-ever retinal prosthesis to be granted market approval by the FDA for patients in the United States. The artificial retina sends messages through the optic nerve to the brain, allowing people who have lost their sight due to deterioration of the retina to regain partial sight, recovering in particular their sensitivity to contours, colours and contrasts. The medical device is designed to make people who suffer from this type of blindness more independent in their daily lives, and the researchers also hope to extend the system to help those suffering from degenerative blindness linked to old age and even people blind from birth.
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