Meet Jo Ann Lewis, and unfortunately In 1949 she began losing her sight to retinis pigmentosa, a degenerative disease that destroys light-detecting cells within the eye. But now in 2010 readily available microelectronic implants have granted her the ability to recapture as National Geographic so eloquently put, “A Vestige Of Vision”. After watching the footage of Jo Ann Lewis’ procedure after the break, we must realize that this is the inception, just imagine what microeletronic implants will have in store for us in 5, 10, or even 15 years…