{"id":14497,"date":"2015-05-30T07:01:14","date_gmt":"2015-05-30T14:01:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/05\/bionic-eyes-give-second-sight-to-the-blind"},"modified":"2017-04-25T04:04:59","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T11:04:59","slug":"bionic-eyes-give-second-sight-to-the-blind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/05\/bionic-eyes-give-second-sight-to-the-blind","title":{"rendered":"Bionic Eyes Give Second Sight to the Blind"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\\'blog-photo\\' href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/image\/iUzgwzO4kK00.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The blind can now see with the help of bionic eyes. In this edition of Wiring the World, Bloomberg\u2019s Ramy Inocencio meets one man diagnosed with retinitis pigmentosa, an incurable form of eye decay, who sees his wife\u2019s face, the ocean\u2019s surf and fireworks for the first time. (Source: Bloomberg) <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/videos\/2015-05-21\/bionic-eyes-give-second-sight-to-the-blind\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The blind can now see with the help of bionic eyes. In this edition of Wiring the World, Bloomberg\u2019s Ramy Inocencio meets one man diagnosed with retinitis pigmentosa, an incurable form of eye decay, who sees his wife\u2019s face, the ocean\u2019s surf and fireworks for the first time. (Source: Bloomberg) Read more<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":356,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1501],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-transhumanism-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14497","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\/356"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14497"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14497\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46481,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14497\/revisions\/46481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}