Bionic eyes and non-bionic bionic eyes

Surgeons at Moorfields eye hospital have successfully implanted devices into the eyes of blind patients suffering from the disease the disease retinitis pigmentosa. Click here for full story. The devices known as Argus II receive a wireless signal transmitted from a camera on a pair of glasses. It is not known whether the devices - implanted into the eyes of two men in their fifties – will help the patients to see better, but they were both recovering well from their operations. Although the trials continue into bionic eyes are very good news for sufferers of retinitis pigmentosa, news that they are being carried out may come as a disappointment to the scores of computer gamers hungrily scouring the internet in hope of more developments about a very different ‘bionic’ eye. However there is in actual fact nothing bionic about the contact lenses imprinted with circuit boards they hope will revolutionise their computer gaming experience in the non-foreseeable future.