A Carolina woman has become one of the first of a group of blind people to have had their sight restored through cybernetics.

Electrodes implanted in Cheri Robertson’s brain receive a video signal from a small camera worn on her eyeglasses and processed through a wearable computer, a la Geordi LaForge.

Patients with the implants see flashes of light and outlines of objects, but there’s a good chance that the technology will improve with time.