"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 ...

Eye Surgery Center of Hawaii performed the state’s first bionic eye surgery. The patient underwent surgery for the bionic eye and nine months later is now able to see light. The patient is deaf and ...

Researchers have identified a new way of mapping ‘phosphenes’ – the visual perception of the bright flashes we see when no light is entering the eye – to improve the outcome of surgery for patients ...

EXCLUSIVE: In the documentary Light Darkness Light, which is about to make its North American premiere at DOC NYC, a man who lost his vision gets the opportunity to regain it with the help of an ...

Next-generation bionic eyes are practically here today. Imagine a blind person's real-world conundrum trying to shop for one -- they could schedule surgery for Nano Retina’s implant today and see ...

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 ...

A team of Engineers from Stanford, and Glasgow, Scotland, have made some incredible advances on their earlier designs for a photovoltaic bionic eye. Their new paper, published in Nature Communications ...

NEW YORK -- When 68-year-old Robert Rosene became a bionic-eyed man, he didn't get the Six Million Dollar Man's telescoping vision. Rosene, of St. Charles, Ill., was all but pitch-black blind before ...