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A wireless energy transfer system to safely and reliably help blind people see again

A wireless energy transfer system to safely and reliably help blind people see again

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Bionic eye promises vision for the blind

Bionic eye promises vision for the blind

Monash University is preparing to launch technology that should allow blind users to make out objects and other people World-leading technology that could help restore vision to a large numb... Read more

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Gentle touch and the bionic eye

Gentle touch and the bionic eye

Using haptics to improve outcomes for people given visual prosthetics Normal vision is essentially a spatial sense that often relies upon touch and movement during and after development, the... Read more

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Argus II becomes first “bionic eye” to gain approval for sale in U.S.

Argus II becomes first

The system is designed to treat near blindness caused by retinitis pigmentosa While the word prosthesis usually evokes images of artificial legs, arms, and these days even sophisticated thou... Read more

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Australian bionic eye successfully implanted

Australian bionic eye successfully implanted

“These results have fulfilled our best expectations” In a major development, Bionic Vision Australia researchers have successfully performed the first implantation of an early prototyp... Read more

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Tiny Solar-Panel-Like Cells Help Restore Sight to the Blind

Tiny Solar-Panel-Like Cells Help Restore Sight to the Blind

A new type of retinal prosthesis   Using tiny solar-panel-like cells surgically placed underneath the retina, scientists at the Stanford University School of Medicine have devised a sys... Read more

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Bionic Eye Expected To Let The Blind See By 2014

Bionic Eye Expected To Let The Blind See By 2014

The aim for this vision prosthetic is to be at least equivalent to a seeing-eye dog or a white cane With over 285 million visually impaired people in the world, research into restoring visio... Read more

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Retinal Prosthesis posts encouraging results in clinical trial

Retinal Prosthesis posts encouraging results in clinical trial

Improvements of 96 percent in object localization   After receiving European market approval for its Argus II Retinal Prosthesis in 2011, Second Sight has published interim results of a... Read more

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“Eyeborg” Replaces Eye With Functioning Wireless Video Camera

“Eyeborg” Replaces Eye With Functioning Wireless Video Camera

You might remember Rob Spence, known online as the Eyeborg for his project to create a working bionic eye. We wrote about him before, and interviewed him a while back, but the project has ad... Read more

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“Artificial retina” wins European approval

“Artificial retina” wins European approval

The Argus II Retinal Implant from California-based company Second Sight has become the first retinal prosthesis for treatment of the blind approved for sale in Europe. The approval follows a... Read more

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