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A rice-sized bionic eye implant helps legally blind people read letters again in a successful trial and brings artificial sight closer to reality: here is how it works
23 Oct 2025 15:12 GMT
A wireless bionic eye implant, smaller than a … ?
The system copies the way healthy eyes process visual information, but … the New England Journal of Medicine paper, said the implant “ … trends, drawing on years of hands-on development experience.
Whether it …
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Purple Heart recipient with prosthetic arm made for veterans is a playable character in Call of Duty
22 Oct 2025 19:11 GMT
… a female veteran missing a limb and credited her husband … arm for veterans by a leading prosthetics company
The CEO of Open Bionics … to bring a 3D-printed medical device to market, Payne said … an influencer recorded how her prosthetic hand can move even when …
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Blind Patients See Again With Bionic Eye
22 Oct 2025 09:11 GMT
A combination of a surgically implanted chip and augmented-reality (AR) glasses is giving hope to people who have lost their sight — allowing many to read again after years of blindness.
According to a study published Monday (Oct. 20) in The New England …
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Visually impaired woman regains ability to read after world-first bionic eye trial
22 Oct 2025 07:39 GMT
… successfully take part in a bionic eye implant trial - which … have access to this new medical therapy for GA in dry …
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A bionic knee restores natural movement
22 Oct 2025 04:06 GMT
The new system is anchored to the bone and controlled by the nervous system, offering more stability and easier navigation.COURTESY OF THE RESEARCHERS In the new study, the researchers developed a procedure to insert a titanium rod into the residual femur …
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Wearables, AI And Your Personal Medical Avatar
21 Oct 2025 19:15 GMT
… and has limited accuracy. Wearable health technology based on flexible electronics … , where in the medical office of the future, doctors are taking wearable … will change our lives, including bionics for aging.
“You can now …
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Blind patients can recognise faces and read thanks to tiny ‘bionic’ chip
21 Oct 2025 05:18 GMT
The implant is an ultra-thin wireless microchip, measuring 2mm by 2mm, which is inserted under the retina and links to a video-camera attached to a pair of augmented-reality glasses.
Dozens of patients who suffered from age-related macular degeneration ( …
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Blindness cured with ‘revolutionary’ bionic chip
20 Oct 2025 20:22 GMT
The implant stimulates undamaged inner retinal neurons, so they can transmit the signal to the brain, through the optic nerve, where it is interpreted as vision.
Sheila Irvine, one of the first patients on the trial in London, said before the implant she …
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Blind patients regain sight with ‘revolutionary’ bionic chip
20 Oct 2025 17:08 GMT
… again thanks to a “revolutionary” bionic chip, in what experts are … ’ in artificial vision
In a healthy eye, light-sensitive cells in … the New England Journal of Medicine. “The implant represents a paradigm …
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Legacy of 'bionic woman' passes £1m milestone
19 Oct 2025 20:28 GMT
… North Run wearing a "bionic" suit in 2016
Organisers … but a suit with mechanical legs, called ReWalk, helped her … used braces to support the legs, motors to help rotate joints … 2016, earning the nickname "bionic woman" for her achievements …