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Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2000 16:20:20 +0100
From: "Joseph Kehoe" <>
Subject: artifical eyes?

http://www.blindness.org/html/newest/wchipweb.html

For the first time ever, researchers from a company called Optobionics 
surgically

implanted an artificial retina into three patients who are blind from retinitis 
pigmentosa.
These highly-experimental prosthetic devices, made of silicone computer chips,

are intended to restore ambulatory vision, thereby giving people the freedom to 
walk
without the assistance of a cane or guide dog.

Joseph.

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