Maybe they should instead use those 60 electrode to interface with 60 different kinds of laser beams and tiny little dart launchers. SWEET.

Not saying it can’t be done - just saying its not something that can be solved by a pair of wire strippers and a couple o’ dozen trusty “western union” splices.

I think right now they are testing a version with 60 electrodes. Assuming a 1:1 correlation between electrodes and pixels (I’m assuming the optic nerve isn’t “progressive scan”) - to say nothing of the “bit depth” of these electrodes - were talking about 1/1,000,000th of the visual acuity of an organic eye.

What would take the cake is if it was solar powered! We don’t need to see when it is dark so solar power would be most logical.

Thanks to anyone who can direct me to a solution to this.

Has the bionic eye transplant started for patients? If so, what is the contact no, where I can try.

http://www.doheny.org/research/retina.html

check it out!

But I am hoping that this will become a useful and successful product because I have no use able vision in my right eye because of a wrinkle on my retina.

I was diagnosed with a congenital cataract that was removed over 35 years ago- prior to lens replacement surgery. I was told I would never have binocular vision because it was “too late for me” by doctors around the country, yet I kept asking- nearly every year of my life. Doctors told me that my brain had never learned to process sight from two eyes, so I was considered a “high risk case” by their standards. As an aside, I am a glass artist and binocular vision is rather important.
Three years ago, I was diagnosed with “severe corneal degeneration” in the same eye- very painful. I managed to talk ONE doctor involved in my case into signing off on giving me a lens implant (even though it was “useless” and I was “high risk”)- after requesting to see three doctors- the first two told me absolutely NO lens implant.
A single doctor, Doctor Ogawa in Albuquerque, New Mexico, gave me both the lens implant and corneal transplant in one surgery- lasting about two hours. Less than a week later I was able to see from that eye for the first time in my life.
Three years later, I have depth perception for the first time in my life and while my vision is not perfect in that eye, if I were to lose vision in my other eye- I would be able to see my daughter’s face. The colors I see are richer, my perepheral vision is better, I have depth perception (no more missing the wine glass when I pour!)

Eye surgeries and occular developments are some of the fastest growing fields in medicine and science- do not lose hope!
And above all- NEVER let ANYONE tell you that it won’t work for some reason. There is still so much that we don’t understand about how our bodies and minds work- and we are capable of GREAT things. Thank you to all of the specialists, techs, researchers, developers and dreamers out there who keep working on this cool stuff and who never give up- you guys ROCK.

PS- I loved the comments from the “degenerates”- they made me laugh pretty freakin’ hard! A half blind girl with no sense of humor would be a shame, indeed, now wouldn’t it?

Its astart and i hope in the next 20years the clarity improves to that of humans 20/20.