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Future of Prosthetics; Artificial Organ and Bionic Eye

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 Last week a university in Melbourne successfully ran human trials for the bionic eye technology. In today's world prosthetics are becoming a common thing. Prosthetic arms and legs have proved very useful in improving the lives of people who are born with birth defects or lose a body part in an accident.    Back in 2019 a US-based company successfully created the bionic eye or gennaris bionic vision system. This technology was on the next level as for the first time it was successfully helping blind people to see and differentiate between lightness and darkness. it works by bypassing the damaged optic nerves and allows the retina to transmit signals. Four 9mm tiles are implanted in the brain which receives these signals. This technology is very revolutionary as it can eradicate blindness permanently. Today's prosthetics work with the help of an external computer device that receives signals from muscles and causes movement as per requirement. Though this works fine it is quite

Isro Gaganyaan Mission Latest Updates; Gaganyaan Engine Test

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 Isro is undoubtedly one of the greatest space research organisations out there. It has achieved some remarkable feet in the past few decades. Still, they haven't sent humans to space yet. In today's space game, human space exploration is very important. Many aspiring astronauts leave the country as Isro didn't send humans for missions. Though we have remarkable Indian astronauts like Sunita Williams and Kalpana Chawla, but they were sent by NASA and Rakesh Sharma, the first Indian to be ever sent to space was also sent on a Russian rocket. But finally with the Gaganyaan Mission, for the first time, 3 Indians including a woman will be sent to space on Indian spacecraft. So, Gaganyaan will be a 5-7 days mission where the orbital module will be sent to lower earth orbit on the GSLV-Mk III Rocket. The orbital module consists of a service module that has two kinds of liquid propellant engines and thrusters. it also has some storage space. The other part is the crew module which