The world seems beautiful because God has given us eyes to see the beauty in it. But what about those who can’t see or had their vision impaired because of some trauma or accident? Sight is one of the greatest gifts that a human being can give and receive. Arthur Lowery at Monash University in Clayton, Victoria is trying to do the same…. giving the gift of sight to the vision- impaired by developing a bionic eye and according to Lowery, one doesn’t need an eyeball for his eye.

A normal eye produces 1 to 2 million pixel image. To create a bionic eye, 11 small tiles each loaded with 43 electrodes will be implanted in those areas of the brain that deal with vision. When these areas are stimulated, seeing flashes of light is the most common phenomena reported by people. Lowery explains that each electrode would be capable of creating a dot of light which will be like seeing a pixel. So, all the tiles together would provide around 500 pixels.

Though this number is far smaller than the one produced by a normal eye, it is still enough to create a simple image. There will be a camera mounted on a pair of glasses to be worn by the user. This camera will pick up the images and send those to a pocket-sized processor worn by the user. This processor in turn would identify and pull pout the relevant parts of an image and send it to the tiles.

The first blind person using this bionic eye will be a person from Australia. Apart from this person there are many volunteers: that is people who will have recently lost their eyesight due to injury. It is to be noted that this eye may not work for people who are blind since birth. But for others who have lost their vision because of an accident may soon have a reason to smile.

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Author: Technology and Beyond