Jeremy has been writing about technology and PCs since the 90nm Netburst era (Google it!) and enjoys nothing more than a serious dissertation on the finer points of monitor input lag and overshoot followed by a forensic examination of advanced lithography. Or maybe he just likes machines that go “ping!” He also has a thing for tennis and cars.
Elon Musk's Blindsight brain implant has achieved a major milestone. It's now being worn by Geordi La Forge. No wait, it's actually been awarded Breakthrough Device Designation by the FDA. But to celebrate, Musk evoked the famously vision-enhanced Star Trek characterdevice is designed not only to restore vision to those who have lost it, but even enable someone blind from birth to see for the first time.
Exactly what Blindisght will be capable of isn't clear. The basics involve a microelectrode array embedded in the visual cortex and stimulating neurons, an approach than in itself isn't new. However, Musk did have the following to say: The company has already been testing a chip that allows the recipient to communicate with digital devices by thought alone,
"People who have been blind from birth will not have developed the biological capacity for seeing through their eyes, meaning that despite the visual cortex’s cellular layout being optimized for vision tasks, the pathways that create the concept of vision sighted people understand will not exist. It is misleading for Musk to suggest otherwise, though I suspect the blind and low-vision community is accustomed to sighted people making this kind of mistake.
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