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The Woman With the Bionic Eye
Fran Fulton is 66, and she’s been fully blind for about 10 years. A few weeks ago, all that changed. Fulton suffers from retinitis pigmentosa—a degenerative eye disease that slowly causes light-sensitive cells in the
Read More »“Little flash” as bionic eye brings amazed woman some sight
A bionic eye has given an Australian woman partial sight and researchers say it is an important step towards eventually helping visually impaired people get around independently. Dianne Ashworth, who has severe vision loss due
Read More »‘I’ve dreamed in colour for the first time in 20 years’: Blind British man can see again after first successful implant of ‘bionic’ eye microchips
It was the ‘magic moment’ that released Chris James from ten years of blindness. Doctors switched on a microchip that had been inserted into the back of his eye three weeks earlier
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