ANN ARBOR, Mich. – A degenerative eye disease slowly robbed Roger Pontz of his vision. Diagnosed with retinitis pigmentosa as a teenager, he has been almost completely blind for years. Now, thanks to ...

"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 ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . According to Stanga, an electrode array, part of the Bionic Eye System from Bionic Vision Technologies, is ...

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 ...

ANN ARBOR, Mich. - A degenerative eye disease slowly robbed Roger Pontz of his vision. Diagnosed with retinitis pigmentosa as a teenager, Pontz has been almost completely blind for years. Now, thanks ...

Talk about bionic eyes and most people hearken back to the Bionic Man or other sci-fi shows. Engineers at the University of Washington, however, say it’s not all movie magic fantasy. University ...

In a heartwarming moment captured on video, a Minnesota man was finally able to see his wife of 45 years with the aid of a bionic eye implant. Tap to view if on News app. Allen Zderad, 68, was ...

Bionic eyes that return sight to the blind might not be as far off as previously thought, with researchers in London carrying out the first treatment on a pair of patients in a study of a new ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...