http://health.discovery.com/convergence/medicine/hardware/hardware.html
(Edited by Murphy at 7:25 pm on June 17, 2002)
*looks on in awe*
I'M SITTING ACROSS FROM A BLIND MAN � CALL HIM PATIENT Alpha � at a long table in a windowless conference room in New York. On one end of the table there's an old television and a VCR. On the other end are a couple of laptops. They're connected by wires to a pair of homemade signal processors housed in unadorned gunmetal-gray boxes, each no bigger than a loaf of bread. In the corner stands a plastic ficus tree, and beyond that, against the far wall, a crowded bookshelf. Otherwise, the walls are white and bare. When the world's first bionic eye is turned on, this is what Patient Alpha will see. Read on for more.
