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VISOR-like Implants Allow Eyeless Woman To See
June 20 - Retro Review: Disaster
Troi must take command of the ship while Picard struggles to work with three children and Worf delivers Keiko's baby.

June 6 - Retro Review: Silicon Avatar
A scientist pursuing the Crystalline Entity discovers that Data's brain holds her son's memories.

May 30 - Retro Review: Ensign Ro
A court-martialed Starfleet officer from occupied Bajor is sent to help locate a terrorist leader.

May 23 - Retro Review: Darmok
Picard is exiled with the leader of an alien race who speaks in incomprehensible metaphors.

May 15 - Retro Review: Redemption, Part Two
Picard discovers that Tasha Yar's Romulan daughter is influencing the Klingon civil war.

May 9 - Retro Review: Redemption, Part One
When Picard is asked as Arbiter of Succession to oversee Gowron's installation, Worf resigns from Starfleet to fight against the Duras family.

May 2 - Retro Review: In Theory
Data creates a romantic subroutine to experiment with love.

Apr 24 - Retro Review: The Mind's Eye
LaForge is kidnapped and altered by Romulans to take part in an assassination plot against a Klingon governor.

Apr 17 - Retro Review: The Host
Crusher falls in love with a Trill, only to discover that his real personality exists in a small symbiont living inside his body.

Apr 11 - Retro Review: Half a Life
A visiting scientist falls in love with Lwaxana Troi, then reveals that he is expected to commit ritual suicide.

Mar 28 - Retro Review: The Drumhead
A famous Starfleet admiral leads a hunt for a traitor aboard the Enterprise.

Mar 20 - Retro Review: Qpid
In the middle of an archaeology conference, Q turns Picard and crew into Robin Hood and his merry men.

Mar 13 - Retro Review: The Nth Degree
After an encounter with an alien probe, Lieutenant Barclay develops super-human intelligence.

Mar 6 - Retro Review: Identity Crisis
LaForge learns that every officer on an away mission to Tarchannen Three years earlier has begun to transform.

Feb 28 - Retro Review: Night Terrors
The crew is trapped in a rift in space where lack of dreams causes psychosis.

 
By Michelle
April 5, 2006 - 9:26 PM

A new device that works like Geordi LaForge's VISOR is allowing a woman to "see" even though she lost both her eyes in a car accident.

The Seoul Times has an extended article on a device previously discussed at News 14 Charlotte, which has allowed Cheri Robertson to perceive light with her brain.

"I just call myself the robo-chick," said Robertson, who was blinded at age 19. Determined to try to see again, she became the 16th person in the world to have special electrodes implanted in her brain. The surgery took place in Portugal, though American neurosurgeons hope to pioneer it in the United States in the next five years.

"I said, Oh my God, I can see it. I can see it,' and I was just so excited!" Robertson recalled when the camera attached to her specially designed glasses began to send signals to the computer strapped to her waist that stimulates electrodes in the brain. She can perceive flashes of light and the outlines of objects.

Unlike the VISOR, the surgery only works on patients who could once see. "Artificial vision for the blind was once the stuff of science fiction. Lt. Geordi La Forge from Star Trek and the bionic eye of The Six Million Dollar Man are both examples," noted the article, which reported that the procedure costs about $120,000.

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