{"id":113066,"date":"2020-09-16T12:22:23","date_gmt":"2020-09-16T19:22:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/doctors-are-preparing-to-implant-the-worlds-first-human-bionic-eye"},"modified":"2020-09-16T12:22:23","modified_gmt":"2020-09-16T19:22:23","slug":"doctors-are-preparing-to-implant-the-worlds-first-human-bionic-eye","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/doctors-are-preparing-to-implant-the-worlds-first-human-bionic-eye","title":{"rendered":"Doctors Are Preparing to Implant the World\u2019s First Human Bionic Eye"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/doctors-are-preparing-to-implant-the-worlds-first-human-bionic-eye2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s essentially the guts of a smartphone combined with brain-implanted micro electrodes, as <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2020\/09\/15\/researchers-ready-world-first-vision-restoration-device-for-human-clinical-trials\/\"><em>TechCrunch<\/em> reports<\/a>. The \u201cGennaris bionic vision system,\u201d a project that\u2019s more than ten years in the making, bypasses damaged optic nerves to allow signals to be transmitted from the retina to the vision center of the brain.<\/p>\n<p>The system is made up of a custom-designed headgear, which includes a camera and a wireless transmitter. A processor unit takes care of data crunching, while a set of tiles implanted inside the brain deliver the signals.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur design creates a visual pattern from combinations of up to 172 spots of light (phosphenes) which provides information for the individual to navigate indoor and outdoor environments, and recognize the presence of people and objects around them,\u201d Arthur Lowery, professor at Monash University\u2019s Department of Electrical and Computer Systems Engineering, said in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.monash.edu\/news\/articles\/opening-eyes-to-a-frontier-in-vision-restoration\">a statement<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s essentially the guts of a smartphone combined with brain-implanted micro electrodes, as TechCrunch reports. The \u201cGennaris bionic vision system,\u201d a project that\u2019s more than ten years in the making, bypasses damaged optic nerves to allow signals to be transmitted from the retina to the vision center of the brain. The system is made up [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":580,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1499,1512,47,1501],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-cyborgs","category-mobile-phones","category-neuroscience","category-transhumanism-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113066","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\/580"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113066\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}