Monash University is preparing to launch technology that should allow blind users to make out objects and other people World-leading technology that could help restore vision to a large numb... Read more
A “sonar vision” system that enables people who are blind from birth to perceive the shape of a face, a house or even words and letters, is being developed by a team at the Hebrew University... Read more
Google’s experiment shows that having more processing power and more data makes a difference Working at the secretive Google X lab, researchers from Google and Stanford connected 1,000 compu... Read more
The aim for this vision prosthetic is to be at least equivalent to a seeing-eye dog or a white cane With over 285 million visually impaired people in the world, research into restoring visio... Read more
Blind users can identify complex objects, and even read words This Sensory Substitution Device uses the camera to gather visual data and then uses a rather nifty computer algorithm to... Read more
In the 1983 film Brainstorm, Christopher Walken played a scientist who was able to record movies of people’s mental experiences, then play them back into the minds of other people. Pre... Read more
You might remember Rob Spence, known online as the Eyeborg for his project to create a working bionic eye. We wrote about him before, and interviewed him a while back, but the project has ad... Read more
Image via Wikipedia Poor eyesight remains one of the main obstacles to letting robots loose among humans. But it is improving, in part by aping natural vision ROBOTS are getting smarter and... Read more
Researchers at Bionic Vision Australia (BVA) have produced a prototype version of a bionic eye implant that could be ready to start restoring rudimentary vision to blind people as soon as 20... Read more