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This section contains a selection of Coming Events, Articles,
News Items, Tips & Techniques, and Links to Articles
and Information that should be of interest to our fellow
Ocularists.
Coming Events
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- November 15- November 19, 2003:
Annual Meeting -- Anaheim, California
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Sheraton
Anaheim Hotel
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Schedule and registration form (printer-friendy copy)
are online at the ASO
Site.
- Additional
Upcoming ASO Events
Your tips and techniques for better ocular prostheses are
welcome. We would like to use this forum as an informal
place for exchanging prosthetic techniques between peers.
If you come across any ocular prosthetic news and articles,
please inform us
and we will include them in our reference (with proper credit).
Articles of interest to the Ocularist
News Items
- Wednesday August 9, 2000:
Canadian Researchers to Commercialize a Robotic Eye
By Julie Remy
- TORONTO (Reuters) - Canadian
researchers unveiled a robotic eye on Wednesday that does
everything a natural, healthy eye does, except offer the
gift of sight.
The artificial eye is aimed at providing a cosmetic solution
to patients who have lost an eye to disease or an accident,
Max Meng,
director of the University
of Alberta's advanced robotics laboratory, told Reuters.
"A prosthetic eye can be cosmetically made as real
as possible. But as soon as you try to get eye contact,
the person looking at you will immediately realize that
you are wearing an eye implant. It's embarrassing,''
Meng said.
"Patients always wish their eye implant can move,
so we are trying to answer that,'' he added.
The artificial eye moves according to signals from the
brain picked up via electrodes on each side of the head,
with the robotic eye following each movement of the natural
eye, Meng explained.
Meng expects the artificial eye to be on the market in
a couple of years, but said some details still need to
be refined.
"Currently, we are using a very tiny motor to drive
the artificial eye, but that generates some heat and is
sometimes a little bit noisy,'' he said.
The final product may be able to eliminate the need for
external electrodes, he said, with brain signals picked
up from inside the eye socket, a possibility that could
be even more discreet.
The research was partially funded by Edmonton's Misericordia
Hospital, one of the few hospitals in Canada performing
research into advanced prosthetic technology such as artificial
noses, ears and eyes.
The results of the testing will be presented during an
international robotics conference in Japan in October,
Meng said.
- Related Article:
- Making
an artificial eye move
By Phoebe Dey,
Express News, University of Alberta
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