Scientists have taken an important step towards helping visually impaired people lead independent lives after a bionic eye gave a blind Australian woman partial sight. Dianne Ashworth, who has severe ...

Australian researchers have developed a prototype for a bionic eye which they hope to implant in a person within three years. The consortium behind the device, Bionic Vision Australia, says the eye ...

Over the years, cyberpunk tales and sci-fi series have featured characters with cybernetic vision—most recently Star Trek Discovery's Lieutenant Keyla Detmer and her ocular implants. In the real world ...

It has been more than 10 years in the making, but scientists are preparing to implant a 'bionic eye' in a human subject. Researchers at Monash University have developed wireless implants that sit on ...

A backpack computer has been developed to let people test a bionic eye so the implant can be perfected for those needing it. The bionic eye project aims to give some vision to people who have lost ...

Researchers at Monash University in Melbourne have created a system that interacts directly with the surface of the brain and has the potential to restore human vision. Clinically blind patients often ...

A blind woman has been able to see spots of light for the first time in 20 years after scientists in Australia performed an implant of a prototype bionic eye that has been heralded as a world's first.

With the bionic eye, images captured by a camera are processed by an external unit, such as a smart phone then relayed to the implant's chip. This stimulates the retina, sending electrical signals ...

I wrote an article a while back about the pioneering developments Google were making to turn man into Borg with their Augmented Reality Eyewear . The whole concept would change the way we use ...

Bionic eyes have been implanted in British patients for the first time offering hope to hundreds of thousands of blind people. Two blind patients underwent the procedure, which surgeons say 'is ...