Sheila Nirenberg: A prosthetic eye to treat blindness
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Uploaded on Dec 20, 2011
http://www.ted.com At TEDMED, Sheila Nirenberg shows a bold way to create sight in people with certain kinds of blindness: by hooking into the optic nerve and sending signals from a camera direct to the brain.
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salutemeorsh00tme 1 year ago
Wow what a tough crowd, i don't think they understood the gravity of what Nirenberg actually managed to do. She cracked the code of electrical impulses that body parts (not just the eyes) use to communicate with the brain. The difference between the standard and the experimental eye was like night and day. Forget about prosthetic eyes, this is is an extraordinary breakthrough for the prosthetics field in general. Well done indeed.
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James Lacy 5 months ago
"I'm not sure if 'cool' is the right word"
Yes, it is. Giving sight to the blind is a pretty good fit for the word 'cool'.
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MarkSKristensen 1 month ago
now that´s a HUGE step towards real life Nerve Gear!
SAO IS COMMING!
in the "near" future.
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LectronCircuits 1 month ago
Folks, this is huge. Some day, if your eyeballs are hosed, your eyesight need not be hosed. Awesome!
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StaticXCC 1 month ago
Sheila's work on this is super important and will be a massive help to the blind. I'm also starting to imagine other applications for this technology. If Shiela and her team nail this down, couldn't we then take this work to start creating Virtual Reality that we can only dream of now? I can only hope...
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David Kreuter 2 months ago
Where are the PDFs? Where are the equations?
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DjBumzBeats 4 months ago
She's a rockstar!
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latte123 5 months ago
Agreed, saluteme - a very tough crowd!.
These people have just seen a future Nobel prizewinner in medicine. I'm surprised that they don't seem to realise the MASSIVE significance of Nirenberg's work!
I've seen the results of the current so-called "state-of-the-art" retina prostheses, and they are JUNK compared to this!
It's like comparing a kid's trolley to a Lamborghini.
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salutemeorsh00tme 5 months ago
Sounds like you're just looking for something to take offense towards; obviously Nirenberg had help (who doesn't?), I didn't say otherwise.
Maybe in light of the crowd's knowledge, her accomplishment was not all that amazing, but a variety of people, most of whom are not experts in the field attend TED talks.
And truthfully, it is naive to think that a single person or group of few won't get the bulk of the credit for any discovery, regardless of how many other people may have been involved.
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twistedbass15 6 months ago
You must have a very low standard.
While your comment is good for you, it could be much much better.
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labobo 6 months ago
You must have a very low standard.
While this is good for the blind, it could be much much better.
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