"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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

More than 350 people have a discontinued retinal implant in their eyeballs. The invention was once a cutting-edge option for restoring sight, but it has been replaced by newer technologies. The ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...