Innovation: Human Body Shop

Format: VHS Runtime: 60 minutes Series: Innovation Closed captioned: No Described Video: No

Karen Griswald, completely blind for the last twenty-seven years, lies on an operating table in Portugal, where a surgeon is poised to remove a portion of her skull and implant a series of electrodes directly onto her brain’s visual cortex. It is a risky, expensive procedure, but one that might shed a dim light on Karen’s darkened world… In medical research facilities all over the world, engineers and doctors like Karen’s are coming together in an effort to make once debilitating conditions a thing of the past. From the most sophisticated leg prostheses to jaw-dropping artificial vision systems and astonishing advances in the translation of brain signals, Human Body Shop will explore the complex and futuristic world melding human and machine.