The Technology That May Give Sight To The Blind

Erik Brown
The Startup
Published in
8 min readMar 4, 2019

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Guide Dog — Picture From www.guidedog.org

Science has made revolutionary progress in medicine and curing various conditions. Even the sense of hearing can be restored in many with cochlear implants. However for the blind, guide dogs and canes seem to be the standard technology for dealing with the impairment.

A lab in Stanford is currently working on a promising technology that may one day give the blind an implant capable…

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Erik Brown
The Startup

Work out fanatic, martial artist, student, MBA, and connoisseur of useless information. CantWriteToSaveMyLife@yahoo.com, historyphilosophyaction.substack.com