FDA Advisory Panel Recommends Approval of VisionCare’s Implantable Telescope
FDA Advisory Panel Recommends Approval of VisionCare’s Implantable Telescope for End-Stage Macular Degeneration.
Saratoga, CA – March 30, 2009 – VisionCare Ophthalmic Technologies, Inc., a developer of advanced visual prosthetic devices for individuals with age-related macular degeneration (AMD), today announced the FDA Ophthalmic Devices Advisory Panel unanimously recommended that the FDA approve, with conditions, the premarket application (PMA) for its implantable telescope for End-Stage AMD. The implantable telescope is the first medical device to be recommended by the panel for FDA approval for End-Stage AMD, a leading cause of untreatable blindness in the U.S.
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Emerging Treatment Stabilizes Vision For People With Dry AMD
Emerging Treatment Stabilizes Vision in People with Dry AMD

Owings Mills, MD – March 26, 2009 – An innovative technology, employing a tiny capsule implanted in the eye, is stabilizing vision in people suffering from dry age-related macular degeneration (AMD). Encapsulated Cell Technology (ECT), developed by Rhode Island-based Neurotech, preserved vision in a majority of the 51 people who participated in a Phase II clinical trial.
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Seeing With Your Tongue
Seeing with your tongue. By RON SEELY, 608-252-6131,
rseely@madison.com

Roger Behm lost his sight at 16, the victim of an inherited disease that destroyed his retinas. Both of his eyes were surgically removed.

Now 55, Behm has made himself at home in a sightless world. He started his own business in Janesville selling devices that help the blind cope with day-to-day tasks. He and his wife have raised five children and just adopted another child from China who is also blind. He fishes, canoes, camps and scuba dives.
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Manufacturers Determine Hybrid Cars Should Have Noise Generators
The sound of silence May 7th 2009

From The Economist print edition Sound generators will make electric and hybrid cars safer WHEN cars run on electric power they not only save fuel and cut emissions but also run more quietly. Ordinarily, people might welcome quieter cars on the roads. However, as the use of hybrid and electric vehicles grows, a new concern is growing too: pedestrians and cyclists find it hard to hear them coming, especially when the cars are moving slowly through a busy town or manoeuvring in a car park. Some drivers say that when their cars are in electric mode people are more likely to step out in front of them. The solution, many now believe, is to fit electric and hybrid cars with external sound systems.
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Bionic Eye Gives Blind Man Sight

BBC NEWS Bionic eye gives blind man sight

A man who lost his sight 30 years ago says he can now see flashes of light after being fitted with a bionic eye. Ron, 73, had the experimental surgery seven months ago at London’s Moorfield’s eye hospital. He says he can now follow white lines on the road, and even sort socks, using the bionic eye, known as Argus II. Read the rest of this entry »

World’s First True Bionic Eye

World’s First True Bionic Eye
Thomas Moore Health correspondent Updated:09:32, Monday April 21, 2008

Doctors have exclusively shown Sky News the world’s first true bionic eye that could allow the blind to see.

Breakthrough for the blind
The pea-sized video camera is small enough to fit inside the eyeball.

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iVisit SeeStar Offers Persons Who Are Visually Impaired Access To a Remote Sighted Assistant

iVisit SeeStar offers persons who are visually impaired access to a remote sighted assistant.
© Business Wire 2008 2008-04-01 02:30:00 -

iVisit LLC announced today that its iVisit SeeStar & SeeScan mobile applications were selected as finalists in the Third Annual CTIA Emerging Technologies (E-Tech) Awards. Read the rest of this entry »

Disability Groups And The Voting Ballot Conflict

Subject: Disability Groups and Voting
The New York Times Opinion Making Votes Count: The Disability Lobby and Voting
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MAKING VOTES COUNT
The Disability Lobby and Voting
Obvious requirements for a fair election are that voters should have complete confidence about their ballots’ being counted accurately and that everyone,
including the disabled, should have access to the polls.

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Wi-Fi On Steroids?

Edward C. Baig, USA TODAY
I wouldn’t ordinarily mention wireless networking and baseball in the same breath. But I couldn’t resist. The so-called Mimo technology I’ve been testing
is kind of like, um, Wi-Fi on steroids.

There’s nothing objectionable about this impressive new wireless technology except maybe its name. Mimo (pronounced My-moh) stands for multiple input, multiple output. Read the rest of this entry »

The Birth of Talking Foods
World Breaking Labor News – Birth of Talking Foods This historic, groundbreaking event is finally about to happen. The birth of talking foods is just a
few months away and the video demonstration can be viewed at
www.gourmetimpression.com.

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