POSTS TAGGED AS Blindness

“Seeing” Acoustically

Restoring vision- blind “see” through sound with smart glasses
“Smart glasses aids typically leverage computer vision and other sensory information to [MORE]

Single RNA Injection Reverses Rare Form of Blindness

Single injection reverses blindness
“A Penn Medicine patient with a genetic form of childhood blindness gained vision, which lasted more than [MORE]

An Artificial Photoreceptor in the Eye

Photoreceptor for the Eye
Scientists at Fudan University in Shanghai have created an artificial photoreceptor that restored vision in blind mice. [MORE]

Audible Guidance for the Blind

 
Horus Wearable Device for Blind
Eyra Ltd (Chiasso, Switzerland) is an R&D firm working in artificial intelligence, deep learning, and computer [MORE]

Brain Implant Lets the Blind See, Bypassing the Optic Nerve

Second Sight Orion
Since its founding in 1998, Second Sight Medical (Syulmar, CA) has developed and tested two retinal prostheses aimed [MORE]

Alternating Current Stimulation for Glaucoma-Induced Partial Blindness

End Stage Glaucoma
In a clinical trial involving 45 people with vision loss due to glaucoma or anterior ischemic optical neuropathy, [MORE]

Wait and See

Macular Degeneration
This past August, a patient at the Moorfield Eye Hospital in London underwent a two hour surgery which placed [MORE]

That’s One Smart Walking Stick!

XploR Smart Cane
A student engineering team at Birmingham City University (UK) has built a walking cane for the blind called [MORE]

Growing Corneas

Restored Functional Cornea from Stem Cells
Diseases and injury of the cornea are significant causes of blindness and usually treated with [MORE]

“Visual Odometry”

Visual Odometry
It takes a lot of technology to simulate a sense of vision. But researchers at Auburn University [MORE]

Prototype Bionic Eye that Detects Light

In a world’s first, surgeons at the Centre for Eye Research Australia have implanted a prototype bionic eye behind [MORE]

Acoustic Sigh

Engineers as universities in England and Italy have developed a device that uses laser sensors, cameras, GPS, and directional sounds-not [MORE]

Dynamic Light Scattering for Cataract Detection

Diagnosing Cataracts
Cataracts arise from damaged protein in the eye.  Today’s diagnosis, with slit-lamp microscopes, can identify the condition once the [MORE]