A pensioner has become the first person in the world suffering from the most common form of blindness to be fitted with a bionic eye. Ray Flynn, 80, from Audenshaw, Manchester, developed age-related ...

LOS ANGELES — Robert Greenberg got tired of hearing from senior engineers that it wasn’t possible to build his product idea: a bionic eye that gives sight to the blind. “A lot of the folks straight ...

The Science Eye is an intriguing piece of technology. Developed by Science Corp., the bionic eye seeks to restore vision in patients suffering from a variety of vision-based diseases. But, it also ...

Researchers in Germany have unveiled the Alpha IMS retinal prosthesis; a device that completely redefines the state of the art of implanted, bionic devices. The first round of clinical trials were a ...

The UCHealth Eye Center at University of Colorado Hospital in Aurora, Col., has performed the region’s first bionic eye surgery. 1. The procedure restored limited sight to a patient who had been blind ...

GAINESVILLE, Fla. (Ivanhoe Newswire) Blind for more than 20 years because of degenerative eye disease, a Georgia man now has a new look at life. It’s all thanks to the device doctors are calling the ...

Recently, science fiction has crept into the news. The FDA just approved the first bionic eye, which will reverse certain types of blindness. At last year’s Usenix Security Conference, researchers ...