- Safiu Kehinde
The United States have recorded the invention of sight recovery device for visually impaired people.
This was disclosed in a post by X owner, Elon musk, yesterday.
According to Musk, the breakthrough device was invented by US-based company, Neuralink, as recommended by the United States Food and Drugs Administration.
Musk disclosed that the device will allow those who have lost both eyes to see, including those who have been blind from birth-providing that their visual cortex is still intact.
He, however, noted that their vision resolution may be low at first, but there is high potential of improvising and getting better than natural vision.
“The Blindsight device from Neuralink will enable even those who have lost both eyes and their optic nerve to see.
“Provided the visual cortex is intact, it will even enable those who have been blind from birth to see for the first time.
“To set expectations correctly, the vision will be at first be low resolution, like Atari graphics, but eventually it has the potential be better than natural vision and enable you to see in infrared, ultraviolet or even radar wavelengths, like Geordi La Forge.” Musk wrote.