{"id":868,"date":"2015-12-17T14:48:55","date_gmt":"2015-12-17T14:48:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.despatch.com\/blog\/?p=868"},"modified":"2019-04-10T19:44:34","modified_gmt":"2019-04-10T19:44:34","slug":"new-bionic-eye-feeds-digital-camera-images-directly-brain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.despatch.com\/blog\/new-bionic-eye-feeds-digital-camera-images-directly-brain\/","title":{"rendered":"New Bionic Eye Feeds Digital Camera Images Directly Into The Brain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is a new kind of bionic eye that will \u201cbypass most of the visual system entirely,\u201d meaning it can feed output from a digital camera directly into the brain.<\/p>\n<p>The new bionic eye system was developed at Monash University in Clayton, Victoria, and utilizes a camera attached to a pair of glasses, that shoots data directly to a processing unit.<\/p>\n<p>Signals from the processing unit are then sent directly into the brain, where they&#8217;re split up across 11 implanted tiles, each with 43 electrodes.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers are hopeful that stimulation of the brain area where those tiles will be placed will result in a 500-pixel field-of-vision, which would allow even blind people to see flashes of light.<\/p>\n<p>Look for the new bionic eye technique to be tested on people who have recently lost their sight in accidents, a very interesting application of the technology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is a new kind of bionic eye that will \u201cbypass most of the visual system entirely,\u201d meaning it can feed output from a digital camera directly into the brain. The new bionic eye system was developed at Monash University in Clayton, Victoria, and utilizes a camera attached to a pair of glasses, that shoots [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2839,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[57,58],"tags":[471,472],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.despatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.despatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.despatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.despatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.despatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=868"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.despatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2241,"href":"https:\/\/www.despatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868\/revisions\/2241"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.despatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.despatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.despatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.despatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}