The device includes a small video camera that is mounted on eyeglasses, a small computer to process the video, a receiver that latches to the patient’s eyeball, and electrodes that are implanted on the patient’s retina. Because the video source on the eye glasses is in a fixed position, patients must move their heads to look around, much like an owl or many other kinds of birds.
What invention, after two decades of research, recently received FDA approval?
Answer: bionic eye
The Argus II Retinal Prosthesis System can now be offered at the Duke Eye Center, a division of Duke University Medical Center. The device is already being used in Europe on patients who have a specific type of retinitis pigmentosa, a degenerative disease that eventually leads to blindness.
The device includes a small video camera that is mounted on eyeglasses, a small computer to process the video, a receiver that latches to the patient’s eyeball, and electrodes that are implanted on the patient’s retina. Because the video source on the eye glasses is in a fixed position, patients must move their heads to look around, much like an owl or many other kinds of birds.
The device includes a small video camera that is mounted on eyeglasses, a small computer to process the video, a receiver that latches to the patient’s eyeball, and electrodes that are implanted on the patient’s retina. Because the video source on the eye glasses is in a fixed position, patients must move their heads to look around, much like an owl or many other kinds of birds.
