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This is one of those great ideas that seems obvious in retrospect. I hope it pans out. I was wondering how this stimulated the optic nerve, but it seems like it
by elric 6y ago
This is one of those great ideas that seems obvious in retrospect. I hope it pans out. I was wondering how this stimulated the optic nerve, but it seems like it doesn't do so directly, but rather it interacts with the existing retina?
- devindotcom 6y agoYeah, this would be for blindness that's upstream from the nerve, for instance an opsin deficiency or something that makes the light-sensitive cells in the retina not work. The underlying (actually overlying since the retina is kind of inside-out) nervous network might still function fine, it just doesn't have an input. The photovoltaic dots would create a very small localized charge that would stimulate the higher-level cells rather than the rods and cones.