Seeing Red

Well not really, but seeing IR when you've been blind most of your lives sounds pretty cool to me. The idea really isn't novel, but I found it fascinating that they would use viruses to implant new genes into the nerve endings in the eye that would react to lasers so that a blind person can see. Now this obviously won't work for every blind person, but it's still amazing.

Let's look at other eye-related-stuff too!

Other fixes: Here's a video by Dean Kamen about microscopic robots that can (in the future) prevent blindness! Check out the other pretty cool videos there that talk about Bionic Limbs and spaceship like cars.

Donating to the cause:

Kayu Bamboo Sunglasses are sunglasses with bamboo rims that donate $50 USD to charity because "80% of blindness is curable or preventable, yet 36 million are needlessly blind.”

Until Next Time!