People with blindness can read again after retinal implant and special glasses (nbcnews.com)

The one thing I maybe missed, is there anything that can be done to reduce the risk of developing Age-Related Macular Degeneration?

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Just like Geordi La Forge!

Star Trek TNG is here!

For the sake of the patients, I hope there's a better long-term service plan than Second Sight Medical Products had:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argus_retinal_prosthesis

Pretty cool

A bit of a tengent, but... For those worrying about their eyesight when getting older... If you are into FLOSS, one last defense against your eyes failing when you get older is actually to contribute to accessibility before you (hopefully never) end up needing it.

Disclaimer: I am blind myself.

They should call it Kiroshi. ;) For real though: The cyberpunk dystopia of hackable [1] eye gear is something to think and talk about.

[1]: In both senses of the word.

It’s not often that an ophthalmology study makes it into the New England journal of medicine. This is pretty neat technology, but subretinal surgery is a skill mostly forgotten by retina surgeons. It will be interesting to see who will end up offering this kind of surgery.

They didn’t really demonstrate that patients without the implant had worse vision. You could argue that with the magnifying glasses themselves that patients could improve their vision without surgery. So it will be up to a future study to determine this.

> had achieved clinically meaningful visual improvements

so that means it sucks

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One of my relative got blinded in a production process, a hard bolt crashed into his eyeball, unfortunately, another eye also can't see things due to drinking too much alcohol, I think the pro term is retinal detachment If I am right.

So now he is in pure blindness, I can feel the pain. He comes from China.

I hope there will be a process can help him to see things again!

If anyone knows sth, please tell me!