We See the Future Better Than 2020- August 4, 2006 The Bionic Eye 2 2010 RESEARCHERS HAVE ALREADY RESTORED SOME SIGHT TO THE BLIND. WHY NOT GIVE THEM SUPER VISIONSteve Austin had that enviable telescopic squint. Star Trek chief engineer Geordi La Forge saw darkness as daylight with his 24th-century ocular implants. And now it looks like a generation of very real people who have lost their sight are next in line for such seemingly sci-fi vision. "I'm hesitant to use the word 'superpower,'" says Armand R. Tanguay, Jr., an electrical-engineering...http://gcoa.blogspot.com/2006/08/we-see-future-better-than-2020.html Waking up that lazy eye- August 3, 2006 In amblyopia-"lazy eye"-the brain prefers images from one eye over the other. Most doctors treat the condition in children by patching the good eye for part of each day, but assume that the practice doesn't work past age 10. Some doctors give up on patching at age 7.A U.S.-Canadian study now finds that children up to age 17 can make significant gains in vision by wearing a patch.Researchers identified 507 children with amblyopia and randomly assigned half of them to wear a patch from 2 to 6...http://gcoa.blogspot.com/2006/08/waking-up-that-lazy-eye.html |