Blind people could ‘see’ letters drawn on their brains with electricity
A team of scientists stimulated the brain using electrodes implanted on its surface coaxing their brains to see letters that weren't there. The team behind the research sent patterns of electricity across subjects brains, tracing out shapes that people could 'see'. The technique worked on both sighted and...
Facebook Reveal Eye Opening AI Tech
Facebook hasn't got a lot of good press recently but their latest AI research paper is eye-opening. Engineers at Facebook have turned to AI techniques to learn new ways to manipulate photos to make you look better. Previous image processing techniques have focused on removing red-eye or lens...
Exercises can help reduce blind spots
It appears that we can expand our visual field using certain exercises, such as staring at patterned dots. A new study reported that the participants accuracy and size of their blind spots shrunk by about 10%. The hope is that this will have profound benefits for people suffering...