The first blind patients to be fitted with electronic eye implants in a UK clinical trial have regained "useful vision" only weeks after surgery....
The implants are basically little camera chips that get hooked up to the neural circuitry in the eye. The results are not normal human developed vision, but the patients can see stuff.
Having gotten your attention with that remarkable story, let me remind you of this:
Dining In The Dark: Hope for Retinal Disease
Thank you very much.
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Huh.
From my end, the Cardinals have gone into the room and we're waiting for smoke.