"Without the glasses you can't see a thing, put the glasses on you can suddenly see. You get that wow factor every time you do it." Philip Booth, 60, has had bionic eyes for the last three and a half ...

Providing us with a delightful glimpse of the future of humanity and bionic implants, Second Sight -- the developer of the first bionic eye to receive FDA approval in the US -- is currently working on ...

Biotechnology has become one of the fastest-growing areas of scientific research in the past 20 years, with new devices quickly going into clinical trials. We’ve seen successful bionic arms and legs, ...

The Argus II, a “bionic eye”, is intended to provide electrical stimulation of the retina to elicit visual perception in blind subjects with severe to profound retinitis pigmentosa, according to the ...

Imagine being totally blind and then activating a device that restores your sight, at least in a limited way. Online videos show exactly that happening. Awed patients laugh and cry seeing their ...

University Hospitals Eye Institute in Cleveland has announced that it will begin offering patients the Argus II Retinal Prosthesis System, a “bionic eye” designed to treat late stage retinitis ...

Ten blind people in the UK are set to be given "bionic eyes" for free by the National Health Service (NHS) as part of a pioneering treatment program. The Argus II Bionic Eye, made by the company ...

Allen Zdred was recently able to see his wife of 45 years for the first time in two decades. The Minnesota man seemed to burst into simultaneous laughter and tears as he caught a glimpse of her with ...

Imagine telling your grandma in 2003 that within a decade we'd invent a wearable video camera that wirelessly transmits images to your eyeball, effectively allowing the blind to see. She would've ...

A bionic eye, developed to help people recover partial sight, will be made available in America. Second Sight Medical Products, based in California, is behind the ambitious Argus II Retinal Prosthesis ...

After a lot of theorizing, postulating, and non-human trials, it looks like bionic eye implants are finally hitting the market -- first in Europe, and hopefully soon in the US. These implants can ...