Artificial Parts Timeline
Artificial Parts Timeline
Dobelle's artificial eye. Photo: Associated Press/Stephen Chernin
Artificial Eye
2000
The first successful artificial eye was developed by American biophysicist William Dobelle for a patient who had been blind for 36 years. The patient wears glasses attached to a miniature camera and range finder. They feed signals to a computer worn on the waistband, which processes the video and distance data and forwards it to 68 platinum electrodes implanted on the surface of the visual cortex in the brain.
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