Bionic eye

I had an idea of a near future concept that doesn't sound too farfetched. This concept is believable but also includes tongue-in-cheek humor. Welcome to Neuro-Optics. You are now granted the opportunity to improve your vision and change your eye color with bionic optics. Implants wouldn't be cheap but it would help the visually impaired as well. Humans could also voluntarily replace their normal eyes with bionic implants. In order to use Neuro-Optics, you would need a subscription service…

New contact lenses have just been developed that can actually zoom in 2.8 times for anyone wearing them. Current designs require that the user wears a pair of glasses to activate the magnification,…

FDA Approves World's First Artificial Retina - The American Society of Retina Specialists

Graphic outlining how a bionic eye system works. The first retinal implant is expected to gain US approval to become the world's first widely available bionic eye.

A team of engineers has designed a telescopic contact lens that can switch between normal and magnified vision by using slightly modified off-the-shelf 3D television glasses. The researchers, led by Joseph Ford, a professor of electrical engineering at the University of California, San Diego, built a prototype of the lens and tested it on a mechanical eye. Researchers report their findings in the June 27 online issue of Optics Express, an open-access journal of the Optical Society.

The bionic eye can only help those whose optic nerves are at least partially functional, but medical practitioners are not giving up hope