Artificial hearts, legs, arms and now eyes :D Thought it'd be cool news to share with some of the people on onrpg, who seem to be blind sometimes.
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 straight out of science fiction', at Moorfields Eye Hospital in central London last week and are said to be "doing well".
How the 'bionic eye' works

Surgeons implanted an electronic device into the back of the eye to allow the patients to distinguish objects as pictures made up of spots of light.

The device works with a tiny camera mounted in a pair of glasses which transmits a wireless signal via a small processor on a belt into a receiver and a panel of electrodes placed in the back of the eye.

Link (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?view=DETAILS&grid=&xml=/earth/2008/04/21/scieye121.xml)

will this be able to correct peoples vision who aren't blind but need glasses

it seems much safer then the lazer eye surgery

Hmm... implanting a chip into the back of your eye doesn't sound that much safer. But no, it's only effective for blind people, those with faulty vision are best with glasses/contacts/laser eye surgery.

Now that is just plain sexy, I love how fast technology is advancing these days.

Wait, I don't get it. How much can they see?

Woah, maybe you could hook this up so that you can take screenshots of IRL!

Woah... O_O

Does it come with a free laser beam. If it doesn't. It isn't a bionic eye.

i read about this in the paper today, seems pretty cool.


im still waiting for the time when everyone can get bionic and cybernetic implants then you can run around and fuck shit up pretending you are from syndicate wars

Huh. Well, makes me feel safer knowing I can poke my eyes out and still have some ways of seeing :3

Good, Safety guaranteed if I get acid thrown in my eyes now.

*Goes to get Sharingan implemented*

I'm not a naruto fan or anything but those eyes are smexy..

*Goes to get Sharingan implemented*

I'm not a naruto fan or anything but those eyes are smexy..

I would rather have cat's eyes or something.

Do the eyes work? :-/

This article would have to start teleporting whores into the room before i started careing.

On a serious note, thats kewl =D.

Though if it dosent come with lazor beams it automaticly phails.

This article would have to start teleporting whores into the room before i started careing.

On a serious note, thats kewl =D.

Though if it dosent come with lazor beams it automaticly phails.

and this is why the world is so fucked up...



Wonder how long it will be before they make one that can enable a patient to have 20-20 eyesight.

Do the eyes work? :-/

no they just look real so u can take off ur sunglasses and save money if you are blind

Now it needs to shoot lasers.

Now it needs to shoot lasers.
And scan power levels.

And scan power levels.

Wich are over...

Wich are over...

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