![]() ![]() ![]() The prosthesis he's showing off is known as the Science Eye, and once it's been proved safe and effective, it'll be implanted on top of, and inside, the eyeballs of human patients suffering from diseases where the eye's light-sensing cells have died. It doesn't look like much - a miniature city of electronics attached to a microLED display just 2mm square - but it doesn't have to. It's a device he hopes can restore a critical sense and help the blind see again. The presentation on his screen shows a small device, about the size of a penny, attached to a thin tail of wiring. Just outside the surgery room, Max Hodak, the CEO of Science Corp., stands in jeans and a black hoodie, cradling a laptop in the crook of his arm. About a month prior, the rabbit - named Leela, after Futurama's one-eyed heroine - received an injection through the white of her eyeball. On a late November afternoon, three gowned surgeons carefully circle a New Zealand white rabbit laid out on an ocean-blue cloth. in Alameda, California, lies a brightly lit room with large windows. ![]()
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