Bionic eye gives sight to the blind in medical breakthrough

[truetrini]

http://now.msn.com/living/0503-bionic-eye-blind.aspx

They have the technology, and now scientists in the U.K. have given sight to the blind using bionic eyes.

Electronic microchips implanted into the eyes of a group of British patients suffering from retinitis pigmentosa, an incurable genetic condition that causes blindness, have partially restored the vision of the formerly sightless so that they're able to view the world as a "grainy black-and-white image."

The implant's first British recipient said the bionic eye gives him "some imagery rather than just a black world." Another patient reported suddenly dreaming in "very vivid color for the first time in 25 years" because a part of his brain had been reactivated. Wow, Toto. I don't think we're in Kansas anymore.

[Bakes]

Reminds me of something I saw on TV last week... a power suit that helps paraplegics stand and walk on their own

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/QK-qsas8dqA" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="bbc_link bbc_flash_disabled new_win">http://www.youtube.com/v/QK-qsas8dqA</a>

[truetrini]

A few more years and less interference from religious nuts and science will be working more miracles.  Amazing.

[Mango Chow!]

A few more years and less interference from religious nuts and science will be working more miracles.  Amazing.

 So very true!