Artificial Sight on View in London, Oxford University Study

If you find yourself in central London this week with a spare hour or two, drop into the Royal Society's Summer Science Exhibition 2011, it's on until the 10th of July, and there you will see an amazing exhibit about how scientists are using the latest technology to create "artificial sight" to help blind and partially-sighted people. Thanks to a volume consumer market, the technology behind today's smart gadgets is cheaply available. Mobile phones and computer games consoles now carry sophisticated position detectors, video cameras, face recognition and tracking software, you name it.

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