But he wanted to see again so badly that Jens -- he prefers not to have his last name known -- recently paid an estimated $115,000 to have surgeons in Portugal drill a hole in his skull and place an array of electrodes on the surface of his brain. The electrodes are connected to a miniature television camera and a sophisticated computer that, together, have given Jens a rudimentary form of vision. Saw a piece on News24 and went and tracked this down. The images look like bad black and white gameboy original gfx, but if it was either that or blindness, I know what I'd choose.