Sheila Nirenberg: A prosthetic eye to treat blindness

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www.ted.com At TEDMED, Sheila Nirenberg shows a bold way to create sight in people with certain kinds of blindness: by hooking into the optic nerve and sending signals from a camera direct to the brain.
TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes. Featured speakers have included Al Gore on climate change, Philippe Starck on design, Jill Bolte Taylor on observing her own stroke, Nicholas Negroponte on One Laptop per Child, Jane Goodall on chimpanzees, Bill Gates on malaria and mosquitoes, Pattie Maes on the "Sixth Sense" wearable tech, and "Lost" producer JJ Abrams on the allure of mystery. TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design, and TEDTalks cover these topics as well as science, business, development and the arts. Closed captions and translated subtitles in a variety of languages are now available on TED.com, at www.ted.com/translate

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@jameslacy 11 лет назад

"I'm not sure if 'cool' is the right word" Yes, it is. Giving sight to the blind is a pretty good fit for the word 'cool'.

@nafsullawwama 11 лет назад

this lady is too humble, purely from the content of this talk alone, it required a standing ovation from the audience if they had any real sense of the significance of her research or its broader implications in the future.

@miakiceh8069 3 года назад

This is an exciting thing. I can't believe how indifferent her audience appeared throughout. Then finally gave an obligatory applause to cue her exit. This science is awesome. Thank you for sharing this info online. Blessings

@BruceThomson 7 лет назад

Marvellous technology - thanks for posting it.

@michaelw2711 10 лет назад

i love this, thanks Sheila!

@Kurtlane 12 лет назад

Wow! This is very important to me. I am already blind on one eye, and the other one is going too. So this gives me hope. Thanks so much for posting it.

@theonlyartist1992 12 лет назад

commendable work.... very interesting.

@jacobreinvented 12 лет назад

Great work!

@wafferz 10 лет назад

This is brilliant!

@Truthiness231 12 лет назад

Pretty amazing how far we've come in this science... I can remember not too long back when this sort of thing was just a dream

@goshinbi44 12 лет назад

This is really amazing. I have a lot of respect for her, she seemed to have a lot of trouble with public speaking. I hope this kind of research goes farther.

@unitruth 12 лет назад

Wonderful video!

@MrCylonToast 12 лет назад

This sounds amazing! does anyone know how this thing is powered?

@seb1390 12 лет назад

amazing!

@TheSbtbsm 12 лет назад

I remember how thrilled I was when "cochlear implant" came out and since then it has been defending deafness!!!! More than 1000 electrodes were required to get a good vision BUT retina gets burned from using that many electrodes and therefore,restoration of vision had always been a great challenge for us until NOW !!!! This is really amazing! I can't wait to see someone getting their vision back by using it!

@GlueRman1 12 лет назад

Congrats to Dr. Nirenberg for a very exciting contribution to the field and a potential to ease the suffering of a great number of people.

@sushrutdongargaonkar2073 4 года назад

Massive respect, ma'am!

@mollytherealdeal 12 лет назад

I like hearing the speaker talk about this positive innovation.

@EthanNin0 12 лет назад

I'll take one, with UV and IR reception.

@sysprog1953 12 лет назад

This is a great topic, bio-engineering an interface to restore vision. I feel the presentation omitted several items, such as when it could be made available for people, some additional detail about how it works and who else is working in this area. This information is briefly covered by the Q and A followup. The url is on the right side of this page or search for 'Sheila Nirenberg - Q & A at TEDMED 2011'.

@gaius_enceladus 5 лет назад

If I've **ever** seen research that deserves the Nobel Prize in Medicine, this is it!

@NERDSAUCE 7 лет назад

How do you get three different tests firing identical signals for ten full seconds is my question.

@BGenerous 12 лет назад

This also paves the way for direct-feed stereo HD video from an iPhone implant.

@Favar1 12 лет назад

Can anyone give me a picture of how such a prothesis looks like? I mean the actual machine, its size and the way its connected. Ive been waiting the entire presentation for a picture of it.

@RadioactiveBraunMan 12 лет назад

@BestestDerek You are so right on that one mate, expressed my sentiments exactly!

@3CooperBoys 12 лет назад

Excellent! So rarely does technology actually HELP humanity... wonderful. :)

@mozkitolife5437 10 лет назад

I agree with other comments here. Sheila didn't add enough of the "and with this technology we hope to add value to the lives of the blind and change the world one baby face at a time". The bits that get you all choked up are what makes TED talks so appealing for the masses.

@tinymahesh 12 лет назад

@dmg46664 thanks for the vid. it's worth seeing the video from the beginning for what john crowley says. i heard crowley earlier this year at hult biz school's 2011 graduation (boston).

@Joshua-dc1bs 3 года назад

I am reading her papers. They're so interesting!

@Engineer_With_A_Life 2 года назад

Hi Joshua, it's been 10 year since this video. Do you think this tech is implemented? Could you provide few links.

@kiberdan 12 лет назад

@henryg913 You can upload a video with "Unlisted" options, if you want to check quality, edit video etc, before the video would see anyone else. When you make it "Public", it goes to subscriber's feed, but the actual upload time's shown.

@jayandcassandrameent 12 лет назад

Where does this encoder transducer "plug in" at the ganglion cells, optic nerve, or visual cortex?

@Mozza314 12 лет назад

No standing ovation?

@missloriscraftroom 12 лет назад

How can we sign up for this. If my husband could see his child

@SujitKReddy 12 лет назад

As a person with a disability (Spina Bifida and Hydrocephalus) myself, I always would say that the worst disability a person could have is being blind because there was no 'aid' to assist that person to try and overcome the disability in some way, now there is! AWESOME! #HCSolns

@DarkNemesis25 12 лет назад

@BestestDerek my thoughts exactly!

@thoxbui 12 лет назад

at 4:30: "Cool" is the exact right word. Perhaps "Super Cool" is a little better.

@AGeekNamedRoss 12 лет назад

She deserved a better audience.

@StewartStewart 12 лет назад

Maybe she should have explained more how the old prosthetic eyes worked before revealing what her team was working on. To be honest, I had to look it up, because I couldn't really understand the difference between the two methods. You really appreciate it more if you understand if you can understand the difference though.

@SuperAtheist 12 лет назад

Not the best ted talk, but still awesome.

@Entropy1947 12 лет назад

Wow! this means that if somebody has a paralysis say from a severed nerve.. that could be fixed by using the transducer encoder in between!! Awesome!! She didn't tell how she got those nerve signal pattern though..

@DjBumzBeats 11 лет назад

She's a rockstar!

@zrizolina 12 лет назад

Revolutionary!

@jewellx80 12 лет назад

this is about retina. does anyone know any new development that improve damaged optical nerves? so far, I found nothing. If anyone knows, I'd appreciate a reply. Thanks.

@firstnamekreuter6695 11 лет назад

Where are the PDFs? Where are the equations?

@Ifailatlife1991 12 лет назад

awesome :D

@jordanowen42 12 лет назад

@BestestDerek Hear hear!

@maxjosephwheeler 12 лет назад

They left out to much info, and didn't even show the product. Try again TED. It's nice to see they are making progress and may defeat blindness in our lifetime!

@Nerun86 12 лет назад

I'll go to the next LIMB clinic and buy such an augmentation for my blind mom.

@ShaunYoung 12 лет назад

Not sure about this... Considering no footage of such systems in use. Why not video the animal responding to visual stimuli?

@sashakid 12 лет назад

Shes not a great talker but thats some amazing work done their for the blind and really cool to know such things already exist and how well we understand our brain very cool :]]

@xwolpertinger 12 лет назад

this retina is backwards, the photoreceptor cells need to be on the back end

@BleachRush 12 лет назад

@DeathG4n oh thx for the clarification. Ya they seemed quieter than usual

@Simon_The_Human 12 лет назад

It makes you think: what other parts of our brain can be emulated with some algorithms on a chip? Truly mind-blowing stuff.

@shibomi1 12 лет назад

I find curing blindness cool!

@ZarlanTheGreen 12 лет назад

What the hell is wrong with the audience!? This is awesome!

@greenpeace2214 4 года назад

She should appreciated by Noble prize.

@frazler 12 лет назад

this is such an amazing breakthrough in communicating directly to the brain. and we used to laugh about Steve Austin costing $6M. the bionic eye is finally hear.

@thaer12345 12 лет назад

This is freaking amazing, but the way the speaker delivered it you'd think she was talking about the history of gray paint.

@lehmejoun 12 лет назад

@rajasmasala lol, the video is hanging at 00:02

@DrakeFellwing 10 лет назад

Also, awesome, incredible, omfgwin... Ect.

@DingoDjango 12 лет назад

This may not be the most exciting or flabbergasting appearance on TED ever, but for all intents and purposes this might be the most important invention of the new millennium. It just goes to show that scientific progress is achieving such amazing new heights. This talk should bring us more hope and happiness than a magician syncing some iPods or someone doing math tricks, no doubt about it.

@someman7 12 лет назад

NOTE: I was very confused when she said at 02:08-02:32 that they're encoding a face. They *must* mean any image. There's can be no image recognition in the retina, right? There's no code for a face. There's a code for the image of a face. She's over simplifying for us I think.

@BestestDerek 12 лет назад

@cyclingroo I hate to ask this, but how did you watch the video if you are legally blind? I'm sorry if I look like a dunce. Is it just one eye?

@romanval69 12 лет назад

My guess is that this will work with people who's blindness is caused by eye issues only (whos optic nerves are intact).

@Vladimirwlr1234 12 лет назад

@D0KTOR7 There are (or rather were) many talks about psychology, pedagogy, sociology etc. which were very well structured and had a clear objective. A lot of recent TED videos however are nothing but people talking about something that is happening they have nothing to do with, or some bullshit about how someone, something or someplace is beautiful and inspiring or other such nonsense. If the Talk doesn't raise any questions or provide any answers it is just a waste of time.

@rats7eli 12 лет назад

@ZeroToNowhere He was taking a picture... I would probably to that too...

@Rvlyra67 12 лет назад

@YoLninYo I agree :)

@OcelotPwns 12 лет назад

revolutionary tech.

@ZeroToNowhere 12 лет назад

8:40 Put your phone down and focus, dick. Great idea, I hope it gets the attention it deserves. I know almost nothing of circuitry, but bigger eye means more space to make a better prosthetic, right? I love it.

@Cronuz2 12 лет назад

@dmg46664 i would disagree with you then, i dont think there is a price on a life, nor a diffrence in price for a good one, or a bad one. my english can be horrid sometimes, and i think i forgot to mention where i picked this out from your original comment =)

@djzammyz 12 лет назад

The Audience must have been sleeping. That was an amazing discovery on seeing again but instead of a standing ovation when she mentioned what they were able to do; they stood there not doing nothing. only at the very END, THAT'S HORRIBLE! I applaud this amazing discovery!

@MarkSKristensen 11 лет назад

now that´s a HUGE step towards real life Nerve Gear! SAO IS COMMING! in the "near" future.

@peapopea 4 года назад

ah man this comment signifies a point in the path of many weebs, that we will never be able to forget.

@gauravrainck 4 года назад

Do prosthetics work for blind people who are blind bcoz of optic nerve atrophy??

@japesp7229 2 года назад

It needs pretty good ganglion cells, which make up a lot of the optic nerve. Not sure.

@MrAlejux 12 лет назад

@dmg46664 Maybe it will take longer for people in the US. That does not mean other countries won't have it.

@platinummediauk 12 лет назад

REALLY understated reaction from the crowd, and not at all a very confident delivery by the woman. SHE JUST TOLD YOU SHE'S FIGURED OUT THE MATHS TO ENABLE YOU TO DIGITALLY SPEAK DIRECTLY WITH THE BRAIN! Where's the standing ovation?

@dmg46664 12 лет назад

@Khyrid Watch the whole Milton Friedman program. You can also google his lectures on CSPAN or see his talks at the mayo clinic for more detail. Your error is to assume that preventative measures (good intentions) could never be more costly than the disease. Moreover the incentives at the FDA guarantee them to always be so, even if you wanted to streamline it. My conclusions are the same as Friedman's, it should go.

@cipher0006 3 года назад

Eight years ago

@japesp7229 2 года назад

Well, its in FDA trials since 2020 & progreessing OK

@burgercide 12 лет назад

I don't get what was "wrong" with the audience. What were they supposed to do? Start doing the wave?

@unitruth 12 лет назад

We're lucky tedtalks exists.

@BrotherBloat 12 лет назад

@TrueVideo I totally agree, as per my comments below... :)

@spartan117ak 12 лет назад

@BestestDerek What I don't remember is back when people realized what TED was about.

@charliebrown5716 10 лет назад

"no visual information... THAT MEANS BLIND"... thanks for spelling that one out doc i was lost.

@inlinevoid 12 лет назад

I would love to see this technology advance to the point where we can write GUI applications to run on the chip using a high-level API. Imagine it, having the time/date/social network updates/new/etc. displayed right in your eyes!

@dachan928 12 лет назад

Wait, wait, how could people dislike this video? :\

@fathkoreon2659 12 лет назад

Im not sure if this only apply to people who still have light persevive in their eye, and ones who can still see darkness. Reson i say this is becouse i don't have neither. so would this still work for me? But i know it will help the majority of blind fokes out their smiles...

@rajasmasala 12 лет назад

@lehmejoun yeah probably he's done at least 2 talks on this channel

@thaer12345 12 лет назад

@theendlesssuffering Progress takes time, you know.

@applepie7282 2 года назад

tough crowd..

@LonghornShootingSports 12 лет назад

NEO UNDERSTOOD THE CODE. WE WILL ALL BE NEOS.

@elchicho25 12 лет назад

Dr. Nirenberg is AMAZING. ( NOBEL Committee, Take note.)

@breaneainn 12 лет назад

The most understated ..bionic?... milestone in 50 years.

@Desmaad 12 лет назад

I thought the eyes were merely cameras; it's the brain that does the image processing.

@omghai2u 12 лет назад

this video was recorded with a camera

@dmg46664 12 лет назад

@MrAlejux You are correct. The fatalism was a marketing ploy, because lots of people are unaware of this issue :-)

@LaughingMan44 12 лет назад

@hare122275 wrong noun

@mikahebat 12 лет назад

@KaiTendo174 Well it is terrible in a way. But the way I see it is that this "work" has a very broad definition. Yes, we can be sitting at our desk and doing seemingly boring and mundane job. However, some of us actually enjoy our days sitting at the job. Some other enjoy working in the lab. Some other enjoy playing music pieces for an audience. And to them, no 2 days are the same. This perhaps is just an excuse... but I think it gives a brighter outlook at life :D life's not so glum :P

@lllraverslll 12 лет назад

good for blind people wonder if the mil is already using this

@kargelr 12 лет назад

Perhaps the audience was stunned into silence. Come on, people - digital eyes!

@dmg46664 12 лет назад

@Khyrid You have courts of law if drug companies lie about their products. Drug companies advise doctors very carefully because of threat of litigation. Can you name a drug that the FDA successfully prevented through their trials? The Thalidomide alarm was only raised because cases outside US, not because of work done by the FDA. Basically they impose huge costs on companies simply to wait. That $100mil stage 3 approval is simply passed onto consumers. Tough luck if there aren't ppl to warrant.