{"id":934,"date":"2016-06-07T09:11:20","date_gmt":"2016-06-07T09:11:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tp2000ng.no-ip.org\/thecomputerpotato\/?p=934"},"modified":"2016-06-07T09:11:20","modified_gmt":"2016-06-07T09:11:20","slug":"pixium-helps-the-blind-to-see","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecomputerpotato.com\/thecomputerpotato\/index.php\/2016\/06\/07\/pixium-helps-the-blind-to-see\/","title":{"rendered":"Pixium Helps The Blind To &#8220;See&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Whichever way you look at it, technology has always helped us learn more about the environment, and in the long run, help us defeat some of our impediments, pushing us to some times live longer! Of such innovation came a company: Pixium.<\/p>\n<p>Pixium &#8211; founded by\u00a0Jos\u00e9-Alain Sahel, a scientist and ophthalmologist- has created an artificial &#8220;retina&#8221;:\u00a0IRIS II &#8211; to help the blind regain their sight<\/p>\n<p>IRIS II mimics the mechanism our natural eyes use to make out shapes in black and white.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 635px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pixium-vision.com\/file_bdd\/upload\/schema_pixel_A01.jpg\" width=\"635\" height=\"166\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Picture courtesy www.pixium-vision.com<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>According to the makers&#8217; website &#8220;The above chart is an illustration of the rehabilitation process where patients progressively identify shapes. It is not indicative of final outcome.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Also the video below is also an illustration of how the device would be implanted.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/113846051\" width=\"474\" height=\"268\" frameborder=\"0\" title=\"Pixium-Animation-01\" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>We at thecomputerpotato think extremely savant research such as this is a blessing to earth, and hope to see more people giving up their valuable time to make the world a better place!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whichever way you look at it, technology has always helped us learn more about the environment, and in the long run, help us defeat some of our impediments, pushing us to some times live longer! Of such innovation came a company: Pixium. Pixium &#8211; founded by\u00a0Jos\u00e9-Alain Sahel, a scientist and ophthalmologist- has created an artificial &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thecomputerpotato.com\/thecomputerpotato\/index.php\/2016\/06\/07\/pixium-helps-the-blind-to-see\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Pixium Helps The Blind To &#8220;See&#8221;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":937,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[75,21,72,55],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecomputerpotato.com\/thecomputerpotato\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/934"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecomputerpotato.com\/thecomputerpotato\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecomputerpotato.com\/thecomputerpotato\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecomputerpotato.com\/thecomputerpotato\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecomputerpotato.com\/thecomputerpotato\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=934"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thecomputerpotato.com\/thecomputerpotato\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/934\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":938,"href":"https:\/\/thecomputerpotato.com\/thecomputerpotato\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/934\/revisions\/938"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecomputerpotato.com\/thecomputerpotato\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecomputerpotato.com\/thecomputerpotato\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecomputerpotato.com\/thecomputerpotato\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecomputerpotato.com\/thecomputerpotato\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}