This is very exciting news for the realm of artificial vision. I have someone I look up to that suffers from Retinitis Pigmentosa, and it sucks to see this degenerative disease affect this man's sight. But: advances are being made in "bionic" tech all the time that tries to bridge the gap between natural vision [...]
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"I'll look over there!" "I'll move over HERE!" "You got an answer for everything." So. Have you ever been looking at a book, the sky, or anything really, and seen what most people call "eye floaters?" You know, the really weird almost chromosome-looking things that seem to just effortlessly and painlessly dance across our vision [...]
Read More entopic phenomena, eye floaters, light medium, Medical Light, mouches volantes, Muscae volitantes, myiodeopsia, myiodesopsia, myodesopsia, phagocytes, The Eye, vitreous body, vitreous humorOk, now if I can just figure out how to put my finger that close to my eyeball, I'm golden! Yeah. I have never had a contact lens in my eye. Check this out – a bionic contact lens! Researchers at the technology company Innovega have developed (and are still developing) some pretty crazy stuff [...]
Read More bionic vision, digital sight, Innovega, The EyeTanya Vlach is looking for someone to help her invent a "bionic" eye that has a camera inside. Watch this: Tanya is looking for donors and engineers to help her create an experimental project featuring her prosthetic eye and a camera. It sucks that she had to experience such tragedy in order to have this [...]
Read More bionic vision, eye, Tanya Vlach, The Eye, vision technologyHave you ever heard of the TED Talks? TED Talks are lectures from remarkable people in the world, and they're all free. The best thing about the TED talks is that not only are they free (like all helpful and inspiring ideas should be) but they are actually something that gives you insight into the [...]
Read More Beau Lotto, brain, eye, optics, TED Talks, The Eye, visual systemHey, you wanna see the inside of my eye? No, really. The inside of my eye. I'M SERIOUS! Check it out: That's the freaking inside of my right eye – you're looking at my right retina, optic nerve, macula, and fovea – and a ton of vessels in the background and foreground. Obviously by now [...]
Read More eye, fovea, macula, retina, The EyeHave you ever heard of age-related macular degeneration, or AMD? Do you suffer from AMD? It is a common form of blindness, and as you get older (hence the age related part), your macula starts to degenerate (hence the degeneration part) and you lose your detail vision. This sucks, as there hasn't been much that [...]
Read More age-related macular degeneration, AMD, blindness, Bruch's Membrane, Laser, macula, The Eye, UKI posted an article about the Purkinje Effect a while ago – I wanted to share another light-related physiological effect, because they're so fascinating! Now obviously I have a high amount of fascination with the eye because, you know, it's awesome – but it is such a complex component that is connected in so many [...]
Read More Bucha Effect, epilepsy, LazerShield, non-lethal weapons, purkinje effect, seizure, strobe, The EyeOne of my best friends has a color vision deficiency, or "color blindness," as it is also known. Being as that we are best of friends, I have asked him on several occasions to describe what he sees as I compare it to what I see when looking at things like posters, movies, the sky, [...]
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