Librarian in Black Blog – Sarah Houghton

BBC News reports that a Johns Hopkins University professor has designed a bionic eye that can allow blind people to see.  "Whaaaaa?" you say.  A computer chip is implanted in the person’s eye and hooked up to a mini video camera built into a pair of glasses.  The video images are beamed to the chip, which translates the images into something the brain can understand.  Pretty cool.