"Without the glasses you can't see a thing, put the glasses on you can suddenly see. You get that wow factor every time you do it." Philip Booth, 60, has had bionic eyes for the last three and a half ...

My first column for Forbes also happened to be among the first financial research published on Second Sight Medical Products (EYES). The column posted on November 20, 2015, the day after EYES' IPO. I ...

Beginning October 1, Medicare beneficiaries will have access to Second Sight Medical Products’ Argus II Retinal Prosthesis System for treatment of blindness caused by retinitis pigmentosa (RP). The ...

Biomechanical augmentation was a concept once reserved for comic books and science fiction movies, but research is progressing toward a future where artificial organs are the norm, not the exception.

Biomechanical augmentation was a concept once reserved for comic books and science fiction movies, but research is progressing toward a future where artificial organs are the norm, not the exception.

Second Sight just quintupled its addressable market. That's not a typo. EYES announced this morning that the first patient of a five-patient trial in the U.K. focused on age-related macular ...

A new bionic eye works by converting video images captured by a miniature camera, housed in the patient's glasses, into a series of small electrical pulses that are transmitted wirelessly to an array ...

Background: Retinitis Pigmentosa (RP) is a hereditary genetic disease causing bilateral retinal degeneration. RP is a leading cause of blindness resulting in incurable visual impairment and drastic ...

Nothing says "the future is here" like implanted bionic eyes for the blind. That's what the Duke Eye Center, which is a division of the Duke University Medical Center, is about to offer to blind ...

The advent of cochlear implants in the 1970s and ocular implants in the early 2000s revolutionized hearing and vision loss treatment by circumventing damaged organs with digital prostheses that ...