Bionic Eyes Give Sheep Sight, Heading to Humans Next
From futurism.com
2022-02-14 22:14:26
Victor Tangermann
Excerpt:
The BBC reports that a team of Australian researchers gave a small flock of sheep “exceptionally sharp eyesight” — at least for sheep — using bionic eyes surgically implanted behind their retinas.
The idea behind the wooly experiment was to make sure the implants didn’t cause undesirable side effects. Now, the team from the University of Sydney and the University of New South Wales say they’ve filed paperwork to start human trials — a striking step toward the type of bionic eyesight we’ve glimpsed in Star Trek via the character Geordi La Forge…..
The device, dubbed Phoenix 99, works by wirelessly relaying a camera feed from a small camera attached to a pair of sunglasses in the form of electric signals directly to the wearer’s retinas, according to the BBC‘s reporting. These signals then get processed by the optical nerve and sent into the brain.
