{"id":31684,"date":"2016-11-04T12:49:42","date_gmt":"2016-11-04T19:49:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/11\/new-bionic-eye-implant-connects-directly-to-brain-allowing-blind-woman-to-see-shapes-colors"},"modified":"2017-06-04T09:16:47","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T16:16:47","slug":"new-bionic-eye-implant-connects-directly-to-brain-allowing-blind-woman-to-see-shapes-colors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/11\/new-bionic-eye-implant-connects-directly-to-brain-allowing-blind-woman-to-see-shapes-colors","title":{"rendered":"New bionic eye implant connects directly to brain, allowing blind woman to see shapes &amp; colors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/eBthqgo-Jto?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Scientists may have made a significant breakthrough in restoring human sight, as a woman who had been blind for seven years has regained the ability to see shapes and colours with a bionic eye implant.<\/p>\n<p>The 30-year-old woman had a wireless visual stimulator chip inserted into her brain by University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) surgeons in the first human test of the product. As a result, she could see colored flashes, lines, and spots when signals were sent to her brain from a computer.<\/p>\n<p>The woman, who wished to remain anonymous, suffered no significant adverse side effects in the process, according to a statement.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/viral\/365044-new-bionic-eye-implant\/\">https:\/\/www.rt.com\/viral\/365044-new-bionic-eye-implant\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists may have made a significant breakthrough in restoring human sight, as a woman who had been blind for seven years has regained the ability to see shapes and colours with a bionic eye implant. The 30-year-old woman had a wireless visual stimulator chip inserted into her brain by University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1523,1499,47,1501],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-computing","category-cyborgs","category-neuroscience","category-transhumanism-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31684","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31684"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31684\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59858,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31684\/revisions\/59858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}