Visual prostheses, or "bionic eyes", promise to provide artificial vision to visually impaired people who could previously see. The devices consist of micro-electrodes surgically placed in or near one ...

Bioelectronics company, Pixium Vision SA, has announced that it has received the HealthTech Award 2020 for its bionic vision system. This futuristic system, which won its award in the Best ...

The Bionic Lens is a dynamic lens that replaces the natural lens inside the eye via one of the most common and successful procedures in medicine – cataract surgery. Once there, the lens restores clear ...

Bionic LiDAR has crossed a psychological and technical threshold, delivering spatial detail that out-resolves the human retina while staying compact enough for real-world machines. Instead of simply ...

PRIMA, miniaturized wireless photovoltaic sub-retinal implant, elicited visual perception in the first human subject with Atrophic Dry-AMD Pixium Vision (FR0011950641 - PIX), a company developing ...

SYRACUSE, N.Y. - A 71-year-old blind woman can now see doors, hallways and railings on the porch of her Manlius home after a tiny device containing an antenna and electrodes was implanted in her right ...

In just a few short years, we’ll be able to improve our eyesight to levels we’ve only dreamed of. At first, it’ll be expensive, but over time they’ll become more easily available, eventually doing ...

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Bionic implants are not just a thing of science fiction, they're becoming reality — though you might not be getting superhuman powers quite yet. Instead, a team of researchers at Monash University in ...

Curing blindness remains a major challenge in medicine. Degenerative diseases such as retinitis pigmentosa and macular degeneration are characterized by dysfunctional photoreceptors, which leads to ...

Regaining your sight, only to have the world go dark again years later, is a frightening prospect facing at least 350 people with one type of bionic implant. Second Sight Medical Products, a biotech ...

Time is not your body's friend. Years will wear away the color of your hair, dull the bounciness of your joints, erase the elasticity of your skin. Among these many indignities of age, however, one of ...