All Articles Tagged As: vision

Microchip is helping restore vision to the blind (6/25/2008)

Ten patients are enrolled in a clinical trial of the device ...> Full Article

Microchip sets low-power record with extreme sleep mode (6/15/2008)

A low-power microchip developed at the University of Michigan uses 30,000 times less power in sleep mode and 10 times less in active mode than comparable chips now on the market. ...> Full Article

Tests Check Out Rescue Robots' Life-Saving Vision (6/14/2008)

Systematic way to evaluate the robot visual capability humans need to drive the device ...> Full Article

Wireless vision implant (6/1/2008)

Fully implantable visual prosthesis built for the legally blind due to retinal diseases ...> Full Article

Helping Your Brain Be All That It Can Be: Neuro Research Works to Combine Human Brain Capabilities with Computer Data Crunching Power (3/29/2008)

As fantastic as computers are at processing mountains of data at lightning speed, they still can't beat the human brain at, for instance, detecting a friend's face in a crowded airport terminal, or even at more specialized tasks such as detecting suspicious objects in X-ray scans of checked baggage. The human brain can do these tasks not just very well but also very rapidly, within a fraction of a second, says Georgetown University Medical Center neuroscientist Maximilian Riesenhuber, Ph.D., of the Laboratory for Computational Cognitive Neuroscience. However, while the brain's visual system can perform the actual detection task very rapidly, even for multiple images presented at the same time, turning these decisions into behavioral responses is much slower. ...> Full Article

Artificial Retinal Implant Project Grows (2/16/2008)

With its expansion to Europe, the only long-term retinal prosthesis study under way worldwide offers hope for treating blindness. ...> Full Article

Optical Scientists Add New, Practical Dimension to Holography (2/7/2008)

Optical scientists have broken a technological barrier by making three-dimensional holographic displays that can be erased and rewritten in a matter of minutes. ...> Full Article

Contact lenses with circuits, lights a possible platform for superhuman vision (1/18/2008)

Movie characters from the Terminator to the Bionic Woman use bionic eyes to zoom in on far-off scenes, have useful facts pop into their field of view, or create virtual crosshairs. Off the screen, virtual displays have been proposed for more practical purposes -- visual aids to help vision-impaired people, holographic driving control panels and even as a way to surf the Web on the go. ...> Full Article

Computer Vision Expert To Head Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering at Rensselaer (1/8/2008)

New professor's research involves heart and eye modeling, smart satellite imaging ...> Full Article

Discovery of retinal cell type ends four-decade search (10/12/2007)

Research may be first step in creation of electronic interfaces to eyes and brain. ...> Full Article