Always innovating with futuristic measures, billionaire Elon Musk through his company Neuralink has just taken a giant step.
Indeed, this Tuesday, September 17, 2024, the said company announced on X (formerly Twitter) that it had received authorization to set up a device called Blindsight (Blind Vision, Editor’s note) allowing sight to be taken.
“We have received FDA Breakthrough Device Designation for Blindsight.
Join us in our quest to restore sight to those who have lost it. Apply to our patient registry and job openings on our careers page, she said.
A few hours later, Donald Trump’s boss and friend on the same social network gave clarifications on the said device.
“Neuralink’s Blindsight device will allow even those who have lost both eyes and their optic nerve to see.
If the visual cortex is intact, it will allow even those who are blind from birth to see for the first time.
To be honest, the vision will initially be low resolution, like Atari graphics.
But it will eventually have the potential to be better than natural vision and allow you to see in infrared, ultraviolet or even radar wavelengths, like Geordi La Forge”he said.
In addition to this major project on the human body, Elon Musk had proceeded at the beginning of the year to the fitting of a brain implant on a human.
