After a close encounter with Death’s sickle during a car accident in 2005, Tanya Vlach lost her left eyeball. Not content with any old prosthetic replacement, she wants the Kickstarter community to ...

Imagine telling your grandma in 2003 that within a decade we'd invent a wearable video camera that wirelessly transmits images to your eyeball, effectively allowing the blind to see. She would've ...

There’s a story that has been going up lately about a bionic eye that MIT is building. Whenever there is news about bionic eyes I get the link from friends and others who know about the bionic eye I ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Argus II Retinal Prosthesis System, called a “bionic eye” by some, has become the first FDA-approved implanted device to improve vision loss due to advanced retinitis pigmentosa. The device uses a ...

GAINESVILLE, Fla. (Ivanhoe Newswire) Blind for more than 20 years because of degenerative eye disease, a Georgia man now has a new look at life. It’s all thanks to the device doctors are calling the ...

Larry and Jerry Hester's love story spans more than four decades, but just after their 10th anniversary, a genetic disorder known as retinitis pigmentosa robbed Larry of his sight. "If my sight was ...