The Phoenix 99 Bionic Eye is implanted directly into the user’s eye. The device itself is designed to restore some vision for patients with severe vision impairments and blindness. Right now ...

The world’s first implant of a bionic eye has been carried out by a University of Manchester academic. Professor Paulo Stanga led the four hour operation on pensioner Ray Flynn at the Manchester Royal ...

Sadly, for a group reliant on retinal implants from company Second Sight, the company has since stopped producing and supporting the devices that give them a crude form of bionic sight.

but we were most interested by the bionic eye and the cochlear implant (we already discussed the featured powered exoskeleton). These are notable for the fact that they are not merely high-tech ...

One remarkable development is the Gennaris bionic ... implants. The aim was to humanise this complex technology with an aesthetic that helps recipients feel confident and proud to wear the device ...

It is a 3x32mm wireless microchip which captures the light entering the eye and stimulates the optic nerve to deliver signals to the brain. A power supply for the device is implanted behind the ...

A developer of a 'bionic eye' that restores vision in blind people ... camera mounted on a pair of glasses and a set of electrodes implanted on the visual cortex. The camera captures real-world ...

Flynn’s progress is truly remarkable,” Paulo Stanga, the ophthalmologist and vitreoretinal surgeon at Manchester Royal Eye Hospital who led the operation ... But this is the first time the device has ...

The bionic eye works by converting images from ... were moving in front of them. In the current device, the receiver for the signal is implanted under the skin behind the ear with a wire ...