{"id":2600,"date":"2005-06-19T11:18:43","date_gmt":"2005-06-19T10:18:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yummy-wakame.com\/archives\/2005\/06\/18\/helping-the-blind-to-see\/"},"modified":"2016-10-11T04:44:20","modified_gmt":"2016-10-11T04:44:20","slug":"helping-the-blind-to-see","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/2005\/06\/helping-the-blind-to-see\/","title":{"rendered":"Helping the blind to see"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/pics\/retina-implant.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"oldblogthumb\" \/><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/istresults.cordis.lu\/index.cfm\/section\/news\/Tpl\/article\/BrowsingType\/Short{a9f0d31f6175b3e4775e11a66c07db268fb74408d6095f6b46eeec420c0e9f62}20Feature\/ID\/76921\/highlights\/iip\" rel=\"external\">IIP is developing a retina implant<\/a> that has the potential to restore limited eyesight in people who have suffered hereditary vision loss.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The implant works with a microcomputer, worn at the waist, and eye glasses. The glasses have a built-in camera, where the visual information that&#8217;s captured is converted into electrical impulses and transmitted to the implant. So far, 95 percent of the test patients have reported visual perceptions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IIP is developing a retina implant that has the potential to restore limited eyesight in people who have suffered hereditary vision loss. The implant works with a microcomputer, worn at the waist, and eye glasses. The glasses have a built-in camera, where the visual information that&#8217;s captured is converted into electrical impulses and transmitted to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[252,212,239],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bizarre-weird","category-blogalog","category-geek-out"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2600\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}