In early AMD, people have no vision loss or other symptoms, but do have yellow deposits in the retina called drusen.
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Changes in vessels in other parts of the body are reflected in the retina as well, sometimes more noticeably or sooner than elsewhere in the body.
Unlike nerve cells in the rest of the brain which are covered with protective myelin, the nerve cells in the retina are bare with no myelin coat.
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They then made a pinpoint opening in the retina through which they injected fluid to lift up a portion of the retina from the back of the eye.
Daylight is one of the key clues the master clock in the brain receives from the retina that it needs to resynchronize.
'One drawback of the stand-out retina display in the new iPad, however, is the increased storage demanded by HD content.
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In 1997 Mead spun the retina off into a company called Foveon, which Faggin runs today.
One critical structure in the eye is the retina, which allows us to experience vision.
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Even the 13-inch MacBook Pro (which had been tweaked over the summer) received a bonus upgrade in the form of a Retina Display and a solid state drive, as well as a thinner and lighter body.
Most of them use the data to trigger electrodes in the chip to stimulate pixels of light on the retina, which are then processed normally by the brain as images.
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Some areas identified as particularly human are the regulation of the cone cells of the retina (which are involved in colour vision) and the regulation of nerve-cell growth.
Some eye experts say omega-3s, found commonly in fish and nuts, appear to play a protective role in eye health with both the retina and cornea.
In the case of the Argus II, the bionic eye or more accurately, the artificial retina, will turn darkness into light through a system comprised of electronics in the eye and wearable technology which wirelessly transmits a signal to the implant in the eye that lets the patient see again.
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Normal vision is based on more than one hundred million receptors in each eye, but it is impossible to squeeze that many electrodes into a tiny device that has to lay on the retina, said John Wyatt, a professor in the department of electrical engineering at MIT who has been working on a retinal prosthesis since 1988.
The all-new A6 chip was designed by Apple to maximize performance and power efficiency to support all the incredible new features in iPhone 5, including the stunning new 4-inch Retina display-all while delivering even better battery life.
The price cuts and speed bumps of the 13-inch Retina MacBook Pro make a lot of sense in the light of reviews, which praised the laptop's high-resolution 2, 560 x 1, 600 display, but lamented that it didn't have the same kind of power to drive those pixels as its larger 15-inch sibling.
Also there's a physiological reason, because when an amount of sunshine enters the retina it will result in the production of serotonin, which is also produced when you take Prozac.
The new iPod touch has been redesigned with a brilliant 4-inch Retina display in an ultra-thin and light anodized aluminum body-the thinnest iPod touch ever at just 6 mm thin and weighing just 88 grams.
An example of the discrepancy can be seen in the price of a 16GB WiFi iPad with Retina Display.
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Argus II is intended to provide electrical stimulation of the retina to induce visual perception in blind individuals with retinitis pigmentosa and has the capacity to offer life-changing visual capabilities to those currently unable to see anything except, at best, extremely bright lights.
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"At the heart of the controversy is the company's newest MacBook Pro with Retina Display, which Apple designed in such a way that it's difficult to disassemble for the sake of repairs, upgrades, and recycling, " wrote InfoWorld.
The results show a score of 1, 601, beating the dual-core A5 and A5X processors in the iPhone 4s and third-generation iPad (Retina), respectively.
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And we can see that pushing four times the pixels needs four times the GPU power to keep performance similar to the non-Retina equivalent, especially in games.
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The researchers, and Retina Implant, AG, have high hopes for the success of their implant in future clinical studies.
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As the brain does not have direct contact with the world, but only an image of the world on the retina which is ambiguous, it has to call on the statistics of how it behaved in the past to understand how to behave in the future.
It turns out that humans can, in fact, detect as few as 2 photons entering the retina.
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