A Chip For The Eye? Artificial Vision Enhancers Being Put To The Test
Friday, September 18, 2009 - 10:21
in Mathematics & Economics
A chip in the eye instead of a white stick? In the early 1990s this still seemed to be a utopian vision. But now clinical studies of electronic retina prostheses have reached the key final stage prior to approval. “We’re in the final run-up to the market launch of the first systems,” experts explained at a press conference held in advance of the international symposium “Artificial Vision,” on 18 September 2009 in Bonn.