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Caitlin Decter is a young girl who is blind - and has her own experience of the Internet through specially build web browsers.
One day, she gets an offer from a Japanese researcher to try a new, experimental procedure to at least partially restore her sight.
The procedure gives her a kind of sighted experience - see the entry for websight, also from the book.
For typical real-life examples of this kind of technology, take a look at the Argus II Implant and the Australian Bionic Eye. Each has some sort of external processor for eye implant information. Comment/Join this discussion ( 0 ) | RSS/XML | Blog This | Additional
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