How their visual prosthesis actually works to help restore vision

Science Corp. founder @maxhodak_ explains how their visual prosthesis actually works to help restore vision: "The device that we have now is 2mm by 2mm... it's like looking through a straw. The electrodes are 0.1mm, which means that you stimulate a bunch of cells at a time... and they only get a small amount of detail at once." "We're not restoring high-resolution color vision today, but what we are getting is this intuitive-form image that patients can look at. It strings together shapes into letters and letters into words, and the brain can apprehend that intuitively. And that had never really been done before." "We actually have the next version of the chips already in hand. The electrodes are much smaller and are going to go from 400 to a couple thousand. We're working on the clinical study for those over the next year. And hopefully every two years or so we'll have new versions coming out."