LEDs Make Better Artificial Eyes
EDMONTON, Alberta, Canada -- EDMONTON, Alberta, Canada -- The circumstances surrounding the loss of an eye can be traumatic physically, but the trauma doesn’t end there. Besides learning to cope with the loss of a primary sense organ, people also worry about their appearance. An ocular prosthetic, or artificial eye, can create a more natural appearance, but it does not move as the lost eye would. A system under development by researchers in Canada, however, will allow an artificial eye to track the movement of its...