Fully-implantable bionic eye that could hugely improve millions of visually-impaired people’s lives.
Australian scientists are ready to start human trials of a new, fully-implantable bionic eye that could hugely improve millions of visually-impaired people’s lives.
Greg Suaning, one of the inventors, said, "We're really excited because it proves the technology and implementation technique works."
"Patients will ‘learn' to use the technology, in the same way a person implanted with a cochlear ear implant ‘learns' to hear electrical impulses.
For up to 2 million people around the world, existing medicines can only slow the progression of degenerative eye diseases; the bionic eye will, one day, completely restore their sight.
It's hoped that within 5 years the technology, taking around 2-3 hours to implant, could be available in mainstream medicine
