Patients Blind Can See Again When Using BrainPort

The people who lost their eye sight would be able to have a 'normal' again. At least, that's what experienced Marine Corporal Mike Jernigan. Man from McLean, Virginia, USA, is losing both his eyesight aka blind due to a bomb in Iraq in 2004. Bomb explosion in the street instead almost grabbed his life.
'I saw a line. Horizontal line'he said as quoted from the site Pittsburgh Tribune-Review Thursday U.S. time (18 / 6). For Jernigan, the ability to identify the forms and the like including a perfect performance.
Wearing sunglasses, Corporal Jernigan was directing his head to a white line above the black board. After studying the picture for a few seconds, she immediately recognized.

   He was able to identify these lines with the help of BrainPort. The device that captures images via a digital camera mounted on his glasses. Then, the camera is changing the image into electrical signals and then sends a message to the sensor is inserted in the tongue. 
   During a demonstration at the Louis J. Fox Center for Vision Restoration, South Oakland, is, Jernigan succeeded in identifying lines, circles, and arrows without any mistakes. The technology was relatively new. But, researchers at the Fox Center, will begin studying the BrainPort.
   The project will be funded by Louis J. Fox, an alumnus of the University of Pittsburgh who also retired commodities broker who suffered vision damage due to blood clotting at the center of retina vessels.
   'One morning I woke up from sleep and suddenly could not see anymore,' Fox's story. Once the doctor told me that he suffered a stroke in the eye, Fox began working to find a cure.
   'A doctor once told me that the most feared man after death is a loss of vision,' said Fox. 'I can say is true,' he continued.
   BrainPort Wicab Inc. created and developed. based in Wisconsin. The equipment is not sold commercially.

University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) was determined to make donations Fox. They want the discovery gives hope for the blind and vision damage. 'Every step forward is always expected. That is more than I can now, 'Jernigan commented after the demonstration.