http://www.physorg.com/ en-us Physorg.com internet news portal provides the latest news on science including: Physics, Nanotechnology, Life Sciences, Space Science, Earth Science, Environment, Health and Medicine. (PhysOrg.com) -- The research, led by Wolfgang Fink, will aid both people with visual impairments and scientists involved in planetary exploration. http://www.physorg.com/news177152124.html Electronics Wed, 11 Nov 2009 09:10:02 EST news177152124 Scientists at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have created a remote-controlled robot that is able to simulate the "visual" experience of a blind person who has been implanted with a visual prosthesis, such as an artificial retina. An artificial retina consists of a silicon chip studded with a varying number of electrodes that directly stimulate retinal nerve cells. It is hoped that this approach may one day give blind persons the freedom of independent mobility. http://www.physorg.com/news175183657.html Technology Mon, 19 Oct 2009 15:08:24 EST news175183657 Research performed at Caltech as part of a collaborative U.S. Department of Energy-funded artificial-retina project designed to restore sight to the blind has received one of R&D Magazine's 2009 R&D 100 Awards. The prize recognizes significant new technologies that exemplify the most innovative ideas of the previous year. http://www.physorg.com/news167582516.html Medicine & Health Thu, 23 Jul 2009 18:50:01 EST news167582516 Mimicking the way in which a retina works is a hard as it sounds. Scientists from Stanford University, in the United States, have spent the past two years working on imitating the way in which information is processed in biological systems, in other words through the transmission of events in specifically connected networks (where information is captured and transmitted at the same time). http://www.physorg.com/news163666166.html Technology Mon, 08 Jun 2009 07:49:55 EST news163666166 Scientists are testing artificial retinas that they hope can restore partial sight to people who've lost their vision to the most common causes of blindness. http://www.physorg.com/news149841853.html Technology Tue, 30 Dec 2008 06:44:13 EST news149841853