{"id":97080,"date":"2025-10-21T14:28:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T18:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=97080"},"modified":"2025-10-21T14:29:29","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T18:29:29","slug":"eye-implant-and-high-tech-glasses-restore-vision-lost-to-age-simms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2025\/10\/21\/eye-implant-and-high-tech-glasses-restore-vision-lost-to-age-simms\/","title":{"rendered":"Eye implant and high-tech glasses restore vision lost to age [Simms]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2500626-eye-implant-and-high-tech-glasses-restore-vision-lost-to-age\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Eye implant and high-tech glasses restore vision lost to age<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0&#8212; from newscientist.com by\u00a0Chris Simms<br \/>\n<em>Age-related macular degeneration is a common cause of vision loss, with existing treatments only able to slow its progression. But now an implant in the back of the eye and a pair of high-tech glasses have enabled people with the condition to read again<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">People with severe\u00a0vision\u00a0loss have been able to read again, thanks to a tiny wireless chip implanted in one of their eyes and a pair of high-tech glasses.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>\u201cThis is an exciting and significant study,\u201d says\u00a0Francesca Cordeiro\u00a0at Imperial College London. \u201cIt gives hope for providing vision in patients for whom this was more science fiction than reality.\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eye implant and high-tech glasses restore vision lost to age\u00a0&#8212; from newscientist.com by\u00a0Chris Simms Age-related macular degeneration is a common cause of vision loss, with existing treatments only able to slow its progression. But now an implant in the back of the eye and a pair of high-tech glasses have enabled people with the condition [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[354,190,382,83,480,195,38,321,214],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-av-audiovisual","category-assistive-technologies","category-neurodivergent-special-needs","category-science","category-society","category-tools","category-uk","category-united-states","category-universities"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97080"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97080\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97081,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97080\/revisions\/97081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}