News tagged with eye implant

Stimulating sight: New retinal implant developed

(PhysOrg.com) -- Inspired by the success of cochlear implants that can restore hearing to some deaf people, researchers at MIT are working on a retinal implant that could one day help blind people regain a ...

Technology / Engineering

created Sep 23, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (21) | comments 2

Australia reveals prototype 'bionic' eye

Bionic Vision Australia (BVA) today unveils their wide-view neurostimulator concept - a bionic eye that will be implanted into Australia's first recipient of the technology.

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Mar 30, 2010 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (16) | comments 7 | with audio podcast

Researchers' vision: restoring sight through artificial retinas

Scientists are testing artificial retinas that they hope can restore partial sight to people who've lost their vision to the most common causes of blindness.

Technology / Engineering

created Dec 30, 2008 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (8) | comments 0

First in New York: Bionic technology aims to give sight to woman blinded beginning at age 13

A 50-year-old New York woman who was diagnosed with a progressive blinding disease at age 13 was implanted with an experimental electronic eye implant that has partially restored her vision. A team led by Dr. Lucian V. Del ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Oct 21, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

There's more to implants than meets the eye

In this month's Physics World, Richard Taylor, professor of physics, psychology and art at the University of Oregon, warns that artificial retinal implants – a technology fast becoming a reality – must adapt to the ...

Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation

created Apr 28, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

New surgical implant prevents total blindness

A work accident leaves a woman blind in one eye. As she copes with the loss, within months the vision in the other, previously uninjured eye begins to blur, and the eye becomes red and inflamed.

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

created Feb 18, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0