{"id":102465,"date":"2020-02-17T17:03:41","date_gmt":"2020-02-18T01:03:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/looking-to-bionic-eyesight"},"modified":"2020-02-17T17:03:41","modified_gmt":"2020-02-18T01:03:41","slug":"looking-to-bionic-eyesight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/looking-to-bionic-eyesight","title":{"rendered":"Looking To Bionic Eyesight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/looking-to-bionic-eyesight.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>After being blind for 16 years, scientists have plugged a bionic eye directly into Bernardeta Gomez\u2019s brain, allowing her to see again without using her biological eyes after she had a computer port surgically embedded into her skull.<\/p>\n<p>The vision system is being honed by neuriengineer Eduardo Fernandez in his lab at the University of Miguel Hernandez, and it is comprised of a few different parts according to the publication in MIT Technology Review.<\/p>\n<p>There is a pair of glasses that are fitted with a camera that connects to a computer which translates the live video feed into electronic signals that are then sent via a cable to the port which has been surgically embedded into the back of Gomez\u2019s skull and connects to an implant in the visual cortex of her brain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After being blind for 16 years, scientists have plugged a bionic eye directly into Bernardeta Gomez\u2019s brain, allowing her to see again without using her biological eyes after she had a computer port surgically embedded into her skull. The vision system is being honed by neuriengineer Eduardo Fernandez in his lab at the University of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1523,1499,47,1501],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological","category-computing","category-cyborgs","category-neuroscience","category-transhumanism-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102465\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}