{"id":107353,"date":"2020-05-20T15:02:35","date_gmt":"2020-05-20T22:02:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/this-bionic-eye-is-better-than-a-real-one-scientists-say"},"modified":"2020-05-20T15:02:35","modified_gmt":"2020-05-20T22:02:35","slug":"this-bionic-eye-is-better-than-a-real-one-scientists-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/this-bionic-eye-is-better-than-a-real-one-scientists-say","title":{"rendered":"This Bionic Eye Is Better Than a Real One, Scientists Say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/this-bionic-eye-is-better-than-a-real-one-scientists-say.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Other researchers who were not involved in the project pointed out that plenty of work still has to be done to eventually be able to connect it to the human visual system, as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/article\/new-artificial-eye-mimics-a-retinas-natural-curve\/\"><em>Scientific American<\/em> reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>But some are hopeful.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think in about 10 years, we should see some very tangible practical applications of these bionic eyes,\u201d Hongrui Jiang, an electrical engineer at the University of Wisconsin\u2013Madison who was not involved in the research, told <em>Scientific American<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Other researchers who were not involved in the project pointed out that plenty of work still has to be done to eventually be able to connect it to the human visual system, as Scientific American reports. But some are hopeful. \u201cI think in about 10 years, we should see some very tangible practical applications of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1499,1501],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cyborgs","category-transhumanism-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107353","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107353\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}