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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...