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Published online 6 August 2008 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news.2008.1004
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Curved electronic eye created
Flexible circuits should lead to diverse imaging applications.
An eye-shaped camera made from a flexible mesh of silicon light-detectors marks a significant step towards creating a 'bionic' eye, its inventors say.
Conventional cameras use a curved lens to focus an image onto a flat surface where the light is captured either by film or by digital sensors.
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As someone diagnosed with Macular Degeneration recently this is the type of research that gives me hope that there may be a replacement for my defective eyes. Get the optic nerve connective issue resolved and I'll be your first test subject. Keep up the great work. There are quite a few eye diseases with no cure and regenerative medicine (stem cells) doesn't appear to be to getting the required funding and support it needs (Thanks W)to advance as quickly as it could. J. Adams
Human eye is the most important organ which makes us interact more with outer world and perform our daily life activities more easily as compared to other parts of the body. As eye is in direct contact so are the chances of getting it hurt. There are many cases of bad luck with human that they loose their eye/eyes in accidents (not road) but simple accidents involved in daily life working. As reluctancy of people in donating of human eyes so their availability is not meeting the demands, it is very good news to have electronic (bionic)eye matching all the qaulities of human eye so that such people can see this beautiful world of GOD again and lead their lives comfortably. This is in real sense the service of manking through science and technology.