The technology is everywhere in the modern world, but the revelation of its importance gets a special mention when enables what was, until recently, impossible. Improvements in health are probably one of the best examples. In 2011 a video ran the world (24 million views) with an emotional revelation. Sloan Churman, deaf from birth, called the button of a hearing implant that allowed him to hear for the first time.
In January, esight released images of Kathy Beitz, a technically blind woman from 11 years back to do and certainly with one of the most beautiful images that could appreciate:. that of his newborn son
This technology is based in some special glasses that include a camera able to extend and modify the image allowing the blind / visually impaired under certain conditions recover vision indirectly, ie, a projection on the glasses at all similar to those used in modern virtual reality devices.
Last week the Mayo Clinic revealed images another important step in health technology. Allen Zderad, a patient with retinitis pigmentosa, lost his sight almost entirely for ten years, and only able to distinguish light from a very tenuously. A prosthesis in the retina called the Argus II Retinal Prosthesis System is able to “design” images directly in the optic nerve, bypassing the defective retina. The system works with a camera and a processor that converts the image into an electrical signal.
Allen Zderad is one of 15 patients in the US using this system. The installation is complex and requires a motor adaptation plan, but it is an effort that pays off. The images, always emotional, speak for themselves.
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