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Gouged-eye boy in China goes home with prosthetics

Last Updated: Friday, December 13, 2013, 00:21

A 6-year-old Chinese boy whose eyes were gouged out in an attack more than three months ago was discharged on Thursday from a hospital in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen, where he was successfully fitted with prosthetic eyes.

Brain implants could create sense of touch in artificial limbs

Last Updated: Monday, February 18, 2013, 13:52

Rats can`t usually see infrared light, but they have "touched" it after Duke University neurobiologists fitted the animals with an infrared detector wired to electrodes implanted in the part of the mammalian brain.

Scientists working on thought-controlled cursors

Last Updated: Tuesday, November 20, 2012, 10:00

Scientists are developing brain-implantable sensors that can measure signals from individual neurons, and decode them to control computer cursors with thoughts.