{"id":12508,"date":"2014-11-01T09:00:31","date_gmt":"2014-11-01T16:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=12508"},"modified":"2017-06-04T12:03:59","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T19:03:59","slug":"i-was-blind-now-i-have-bionic-eyes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2014\/11\/i-was-blind-now-i-have-bionic-eyes","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I was blind\u2026 now I have bionic eyes\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"author author-has-profile author-profile-collapsed \" style=\"z-index: 1000;\">\n<div class=\"author-information story-meta\">Rose Eveleth \u2014 BBC Future<\/div>\n<div class=\"author-information story-meta\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"author-information story-meta\">\n<p>Fran Fulton is 66, and she\u2019s been fully blind for about 10 years. A few weeks ago, all that changed.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"secondary-asset\"><p>\u201cWhen they \u2018turned me on\u2019 so to speak it was absolutely the most breathtaking experience\u201d <span class=\"quote-author\">\u2014 Fran Fulton<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Fulton suffers from retinitis pigmentosa \u2013 a degenerative eye disease that slowly causes light-sensitive cells in the retina to die off. Over the course of several years she lost her sight, and for the past 10 years she hasn\u2019t been able to see anything at all. But in late July, Fulton was outfitted with a system called the Argus II. A pair of camera-equipped glasses are hooked up to electrodes implanted in her eyeball, which feed her brain visual information. Using the system, she can now see the world again. What\u2019s the experience like?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/future\/story\/20140923-im-blind-but-i-have-bionic-eyes\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rose Eveleth \u2014 BBC Future Fran Fulton is 66, and she\u2019s been fully blind for about 10 years. A few weeks ago, all that changed. \u201cWhen they \u2018turned me on\u2019 so to speak it was absolutely the most breathtaking experience\u201d \u2014 Fran Fulton Fulton suffers from retinitis pigmentosa \u2013 a degenerative eye disease that slowly [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1513,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bionic","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12508","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\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12508"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12508\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64879,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12508\/revisions\/64879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}