Bionic eye

The race is on to expand a bionic eye that could restore imaginative and prescient to the blind. The Federal government lately provided $50.7 million over the subsequent four years to Melbourne-based totally Bionic imaginative and prescient Australia to expand the tool. The corporation says the bionic eye will benefit human beings with advanced retinal conditions consisting of retinitis pigmentosa and age-associated macular degeneration, Australia's main cause of blindness.

the primary implant is possibly to arise in 2013. Professor Robyn Guymer, head of the Macular research Unit at the Centre for Eye research Australia, says: "This superior bionic eye will now not only offer customers with improved mobility and independence, however will with any luck additionally enable them to recognize faces and read large print.'' A video camera fixed to a patient's glasses will capture photographs, a good way to then be despatched as electrical impulses to electrodes attached to the retina.