it has 1,500 photodiodes. >> charlie: 1500. 1,500.the image falls through the lens on to the chip and point by point the image is analyzed turned into an electric mirror image in the bipolar cells, they are stimulated point by point it processes the image and sends the image through the natural pathway of the optic nerve to the output of the retina, back to the central visual system where it is processed in a normal way. but now we have amplifiers there. >> charlie: yeah. they need current. how to do that. so what we see on the left is, again, the retina and the eye, and we put the chip right beneath the macular region, that's where we see the best and the brain has learned to see the things. and there is a tiny, yellowish vial going under the retina to the top of the eyeball, crossing the eye, getting out to to empower which goes back to a place behind the ear. but the first loop through on the right side to the retina. on the right is a roundish moon-like optic nerve. left of it is this grey area, a new window of the world to this p

what you can do is replace -- we build a chip that has little photodiodes in them, and each photo diode takes a spot of the image and amplifies it and sends an electric signal back. it's kind of a replacement of the photoreceptor. how does it work? the chip is a little bit like the camera chip in an iphone. it has 1500 photo diode. point by point the images analyzed and turned into a mirror image and the cells first emulated point by point. then it sends the image through the optic nerve through the retina back to the central visual system. what we see on the left is again the retina, and we put the chip right beneath the macular region. now the brain has to learn to see that things. there is a tiny, yellowish foil cable with treated gold wires going under the retina to the top of the eyeball, crossing the eye and coming out to a power supply that goes back to the ear. i will come to that in just a moment. let's first look through the right side onto the retina. on the very right you see the optic nerve. the patient looks into the world and this yellowish cable is the power supply and t