Philly.com - September 8, 2009 - Implant Gives New Hope to the Blind

At first, sitting in church one Sunday, Michael Adler couldn't tell what the whitish glow in front of him was.

Adler, 49, had been legally blind since childhood, and his vision eventually deteriorated to pretty much zero.

But now, on the back of the pew in front of him, he saw something. And then he realized: It was the pages of a hymnal. His new "eye" was starting to work.

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