Bionic eye could help blind to see thanks to camera glasses and a wafer thin chip

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2159331/Bionic-eye-help-blind-thanks-camera-glasses-wafer-chip.html Device replaces the function of rods and cones in the back of the eye By Claire Bates PUBLISHED: 11:04 EST, 14 June 2012 | UPDATED: 11:06 EST, 14 June 2012 A retinal implant could one day be used to restore vision lost through injury or disease, after it gave a brief glimpse of light […]

‘I’ve dreamed in colour for the first time in 20 years’: Blind British man can see again after first successful implant of ‘bionic’ eye microchips

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2138775/The-eye-borg-First-successful-implant-bionic-eye-restore-sight-blind.html Microchips restore sight to people suffering retinitis pigmentosa – an incurable condition that leads to blindness Condition affects one in every 3,000-4,000 people Clinical trial with two sufferers ‘exceeds expectations’ Sufferers able to detect outlines of objects ‘within days’ Vision expected to improve further as 3mm chip ‘beds in’ By Jenny Hope PUBLISHED: 03:14 […]

Visionary research: Scientists to conduct human trials of a bionic eye that beams images directly to the brain

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2136864/Scientists-conduct-human-trials-bionic-eye.html By Ted Thornhill PUBLISHED: 06:12 EST, 29 April 2012 | UPDATED: 06:20 EST, 29 April 2012 So far ‘bionic eyes’ have only been seen in sci-fi films such as The Terminator. In that movie Arnold Schwarzenegger plays a robot with enhanced vision capable of scanning and analysing its surroundings. Now Australian researchers are set […]