t costs up to £100,000 per patient and builds on previous attempts to produce a bionic eye using a camera and transmitter linked to a pair of glasses as a means of relaying images to the artificial retina.Mr Reddish is one of nine totally blind UK patients who took part in a trial of the chip at the Oxford University Eye Hospital and King’s College Hospital, London.He said of the moment medics switched on the chip: ‘It was as if a match had been lit in a dark room – it was unbelievable.‘In the lab tests, when there are objects on a table, and the lighting is bright, I can tell you how many objects there are, and most of the time I can read the clock.'To be able to see even the vaguest of blurry outlines of the medals I won is a terrific achievement and means a lot to me.’Mr Reddish, from Nottingham, began losing his sight after developing retinitis pigmentosa, an inherited disease that destroys the retina and which affects an estimated 20,000 in the UK.http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2281661/Blind-Paralympian-Tim-Reddish-23-golds-finally-medals--new-bionic-eye.htmlRead more…
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