How I Spent My Summer Vacation: A SURF Video Diary

Last summer, Caltech junior Julie Jester worked on a project that might one day partially counteract blindness caused by a deteriorating retina. Her job: to help Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering Azita Emami and her graduate students create the communications link between a tiny camera and a novel wireless neural stimulator that can be surgically inserted into the eye.

Now in its 34th year, Caltech's Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowships (SURF) program has paired nearly 7,000 students with real-world, hands-on projects in the labs of Caltech faculty and JPL staff.

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[Fr0zenM0nkeyStuf]

In the future Nintendo will use this tech, and implement some midi-cochlear devices.. There will be no blind, just RPG. haha

Nice research

[Ezra Grant]

I think patients can barely see and comprehend in a high resolution. So the low resolution is just so they can make out stuff. Or walk around without bumping into stuff

[ramarton89]

One day you will wake up on a Cssssssssss-BANG, and your T-shirt will be blown to pieces!

[jomaanin]

nice bike! :)

[Lorenzo Valenzuela]

why so few pixels? Is it a hardware problem? Also it seems to have a painfully slow frame rate.