Patients with untreatable conditions such as sight loss or loss of motor function could be closer to a viable technology for restoring their lost sense within a faster time frame. This is due to the discovery that advanced brain interfacing technology used for both touch and vision prostheses is, in fact, almost the same, despite being developed completely separately for more than 50 years.

Despite being developed separately, brain-computer interfaces, or BCIs, are an emerging field of technology being used to restore more than one lost sense in the body, with visual cortical prostheses (VCP) for vision and somatosensory cortical prostheses (SCP) for touch.