for paper entitled “Electro-Mechanical Tactile Corneal Stimulation System for Vision Substitution,” that was presented in the annual meeting of the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO), in Florida on May 2012. It was selected by the annual meeting program committee as emerging trend and hot topic abstract which is the newest and most innovative research being conducted by researchers in the various specialties presented in ARVO (only about 5% out of more than 6000 presented abstracts are selected).