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| Implanted Interface With Retinal Nerves | ||
| Circuitry that provides a 'look' at what the eye sees. |
| Implant function had been up to expectation from the moment the bandages came off. And in glorious Tri-color too. They hummed and buzzed, and said their their only remaining doubts concerned impedance in retinal nerve endings |
| Technovelgy from The Continuous Katherine Mortenhoe (The Unsleeping Eye),
by D.G. Compton. Published by Pocket in 1973 Additional resources -
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