"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 ...

The Argus II Retinal Prosthesis System, called a “bionic eye” by some, has become the first FDA-approved implanted device to improve vision loss due to advanced retinitis pigmentosa. The device uses a ...

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 ...

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 ...