[nfb-talk] Fw: Implanted chip 'allows blindpeople to detectobjects'

Thu Nov 4 21:37:50 UTC 2010

I do owe you all  an apology. I don't like it when my words get twisted
atound.

Thanks,

Gloria Whipple

cell number: 509-475-4993

-----Original Message-----
From: nfb-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nfb-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
Behalf Of Gloria Whipple
Sent: Thursday, November 04, 2010 2:13 PM
To: 'NFB Talk Mailing List'
Subject: Re: [nfb-talk] Fw: Implanted chip 'allows blindpeople to
detectobjects'

Are you ashamed of being blind? Sounds like you want people to feel sorry
for you.

I didn't say anything about you wanting to see. Quit twisting words around
you moron!

Gloria Whipple

cell number: 509-475-4993

-----Original Message-----
From: nfb-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nfb-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
Behalf Of John Heim
Sent: Thursday, November 04, 2010 11:06 AM
To: NFB Talk Mailing List
Subject: Re: [nfb-talk] Fw: Implanted chip 'allows blindpeople to
detectobjects'

Hmmm... This amazes me.  First of all, just because you seem to enjoy being 
blind, that doesn't mean the chip is "stupid". Lots of other people would 
prefer to be able to see.  Its like saying its "stupid" to make paintings of

sunsets just because you don't like them. Well, lots of other people do.

I sure hope you're not suggesting its "stupid" for a blind person to want a 
device that would give them sight. Because that would be stupid. If you 
don't want to be able to see, that's fine with me. But don't you dare tell 
me that I shouldn't want to be able to see.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gloria Whipple" <fairyfoot at webband.com>
To: "'NFB Talk Mailing List'" <nfb-talk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Thursday, November 04, 2010 11:32 AM
Subject: Re: [nfb-talk] Fw: Implanted chip 'allows blindpeople to 
detectobjects'

>I think it is stupid.
>
> Being blind doesn't stop me from doing things I like to do.
>
>
> Gloria Whipple
>
> cell number: 509-475-4993
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nfb-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nfb-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
> Behalf Of Ray Foret Jr
> Sent: Thursday, November 04, 2010 9:15 AM
> To: NFB Talk Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [nfb-talk] Fw: Implanted chip 'allows blind people to
> detectobjects'
>
> Nope.  My brain's just fine like it is.
> Honestly, if one adjusts to blindness, why would one want such a thing? 
> IF
> not well adjusted, then I suppose one might want such a thing.  but, what
> with the programs we have in place, one would think such a chip 
> undesirable.
>
>
> Sincerely,
> The Constantly Barefooted Ray!!!
>
> Now A Very Proud and very happy Mac user!!!
>
> Skype Name:
> barefootedray
>
> On Nov 4, 2010, at 10:35 AM, Gloria Whipple wrote:
>
>> Have no desires for that.
>>
>>
>> Gloria Whipple
>>
>> cell number: 509-475-4993
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: nfb-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nfb-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
>> Behalf Of Jennifer Aberdeen
>> Sent: Thursday, November 04, 2010 5:30 AM
>> To: NFB Talk Mailing List
>> Subject: Re: [nfb-talk] Fw: Implanted chip 'allows blind people to
>> detectobjects'
>>
>> Thank God!
>>
>> This is great news!
>>
>
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>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Kenneth Chrane" <kenneth.chrane at verizon.net>
>> To: <CSDB-ALUMNI at googlegroups.com>
>> Cc: "NFB Talk Mailing List" <nfb-talk at nfbnet.org>
>> Sent: Thursday, November 04, 2010 8:21 AM
>> Subject: [nfb-talk] Fw: Implanted chip 'allows blind people to
>> detectobjects'
>>
>>
>>> What do you think about this Article?
>>> Ken Chrane
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>>> From: Lela Behee
>>> To: venetian-blind at googlegroups.com
>>> Sent: Thursday, November 04, 2010 2:38 AM
>>> Subject: Implanted chip 'allows blind people to detect objects'
>>>
>>>
>>> Though this may not be helpful for those of us who have prosthetic eyes
>>> and so have no retina, what a very exciting leap forward this is in
>>> technology!
>>> Praise our Lord!!
>>>
>>>
>>> 2 November 2010 Last updated at 20:49 ET
>>> Implanted chip 'allows blind people to detect objects'
>>> By Neil Bowdler Science reporter, BBC News
>>>
>>> Miikka Terho is given the task of reading letters which together 
>>> misspell
>
>>> his
>>> own name
>>> A man with an inherited form of blindness has been able to identify
>>> letters and
>>> a clock face using a pioneering implant, researchers say.
>>> Miikka Terho, 46, from Finland, was fitted with an experimental chip
>>> behind his
>>> retina in Germany. Success was also reported in other patients.
>>>
>>> The chip allows a patient to detect objects with their eyes, unlike a
>>> rival
>>> approach that uses an external camera.
>>>
>>> Details of the work are in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society
> B.
>>>
>>> Professor Eberhart Zrenner, of Germany's University of Tuebingen, and
>>> colleagues
>>> at private company Retina Implant AG initially tested their sub-retinal
>>> chip on
>>> 11 people.
>>> Some noticed no improvement as their condition was too advanced to
> benefit
>>
>>> from
>>> the implant, but a majority were able to pick out bright objects, Prof
>>> Zrenner
>>> told the BBC.
>>>
>>> However, it was only when the chip was placed further behind the retina,
>>> in the
>>> central macular area in three people, that they achieved the best
> results.
>>>
>>> Two of these had lost their vision because of the inherited condition
>>> retinitis
>>> pigmentosa, or RP, the other because of a related inherited condition
>>> called
>>> choroideraemia.
>>>
>>> RP leads to the progressive degeneration of cells in the eye's retina,
>>> resulting
>>> in night blindness, tunnel vision and then usually permanent blindness.
>>> The
>>> symptoms can begin from early childhood.
>>>
>>> The best results were achieved with Mr Terho, who was able to recognise
>>> cutlery
>>> and a mug on a table, a clock face and discern seven different shades of
>>> grey.
>>> He was also able to move around a room independently and approach 
>>> people.
>>>
>>> In further tests he read large letters set out before him, including his
>>> name,
>>> which had been deliberately misspelled. He soon noticed it had been 
>>> spelt
>
>>> in the
>>> same way as the Finnish racing driver Mika Hakkinnen.
>>>
>>> Three or four days after the implantation, when everything was healed, I
>>> was
>>> like wow, there's activity," he told the BBC from his home in Finland.
>>> "Right after that, if my eye hit the light, then I was able to see
>>> flashes, some
>>> activity which I hadn't had.
>>>
>>> "Then day after day when we started working with it, practising, then I
>>> started
>>> seeing better and better all the time."
>>>
>>> Soon Mr Terho was able to read letters by training his mind to bring the
>>> component lines that comprised the letters together.
>>>
>>> The prototype implant has now been removed, but he has been promised an
>>> upgraded
>>> version soon. He says it can make a difference to his life.
>>>
>>> "What I realised in those days was that it was such a great feeling to
>>> focus on
>>> something," he says.
>>>
>>> "Even having a limited ability to see with the chip, it will be good for
>>> orientation, either walking somewhere or being able to see that 
>>> something
>
>>> is
>>> before you even if you don't see all the tiny details of the object."
>>>
>>> Electrical impulses
>>> The chip works by converting light that enters the eye into electrical
>>> impulses
>>> which are fed into the optic nerve behind the eye.
>>>
>>> It is externally powered and in the initial study was connected to a
> cable
>>
>>> which
>>> protruded from the skin behind the ear to connect with a battery.
>>>
>>> The team are now testing an upgrade in which the device is all contained
>>> beneath
>>> the skin, with power delivered though the skin via an external device
> that
>>
>>> clips
>>> behind the ear.
>>>
>>> This is by no means the only approach being taken by scientists to try 
>>> to
>>> restore some visual ability to people with retinal dysfunction - what's
>>> called
>>> retinal dystrophy.
>>>
>>> A rival chip by US-based Second Sight that sits on top of the retina has
>>> already
>>> been implanted in patients, but that technique requires the patient to 
>>> be
>
>>> fitted
>>> with a camera fixed to a pair of glasses.
>>>
>>> Charities gave the news of the latest work a cautious welcome.
>>>
>>> David Head, of the British Retinitis Pigmentosa Society, said: "It's
>>> really
>>> fascinating work, but it doesn't restore vision. It rather gives people
>>> signals
>>> which help them to interpret."
>>>
>>> Peoria Blind Center
>>> www.peoriablindcenter.org
>>> Here is the name of the group on facebook: PeoriArea Blind People's
>>> Center.  Your friends on facebook are going to have to get on
>>> their facebook account and search for the group's name to join, or to 
>>> see
>
>>> what we are about.
>>>
>>>
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