Retina Implant Instantly Turns Text Into Braille

Retina implants are already being used to restore partial vision to patients who have lost their sight through outer retinal degeneration. While those implants do restore some sight, patients often still have difficulty reading text.

Now researchers have developed a way to allow traditional text to be viewed instead as Braille letters with an implant. Patients wont be able to feel letters but they will be able to see visual representations of the letters in Braille, which may be easier for patients to read and understand than traditional text.

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