Only 18% of “blind” people see nothing but black. Pete is part of the 82% that perceive some sort of light in a non-functional way. There is however one time of day when Pete goes completely ...

That moment when someone mentions a blind person, what image pops into your mind? Probably someone in dark glasses navigating with a white cane, completely unable to perceive the world around them.

Elon Musk says that Neuralink, which specializes in creating Brain-Computer Interfaces (BCI), will help ‘completely blind' people see again. What Happened: On Sunday, an account on X called ‘Whole ...

In 2018, Edith Lemay and Sébastien Pelletier learned that three of their four children were losing their vision because of retinitis pigmentosa (RP), a progressive, incurable retinal disease. (I have ...

Elon Musk’s Neuralink Corp. used a brain implant to enable a monkey to see something that wasn’t physically there, according to an engineer, as it moves toward its goal of helping blind people see.

Although blind people cannot see, they often still possess the brain regions that enable vision. Does this mean that blind people can dream in visual images? In some cases, they can. A 2014 study ...

Imagine telling your grandma in 2003 that within a decade we'd invent a wearable video camera that wirelessly transmits images to your eyeball, effectively allowing the blind to see. She would've ...

What happened: This is one of those stories that sounds like pure science fiction, but it’s real. Blind patients in the UK are actually able to read again after getting a revolutionary new eye implant ...