Researchers Develop New Bionic Eye to Help Blind See for First Time

A new bionic eye that will help thousand of blind people to see light and shapes for the first time is being developed at Monash University.

World-first wireless technology and a computer processor, implanted in the brain, helps the blind to determine shapes through a series of mapping dots after they wear a pair of sunglasses, News.com.au reported.

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The gadget takes information from a glasses-mounted camera and sends it, via a wireless transmitter, to the brain.

This vision takes the form of basic shapes made of light - similar to looking at a line of stars.

Bluesky Design Group director Professor Mark Armstrong, who was earlier involved in the designing the Nexus 5 Cochlear Implant for the deaf, said that they hoped to do first human trial by mid next year.

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Armstrong asserted that the new technique will allow the blind to see edges of tables and footpath in a coarse, dot-type matrix, which will be enough to give them mobility.

The implant - about the size of a fingernail - has a similar processing power to a smartphone.

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