NC's First Bionic Eye Recipient Sees for First Time in 33 years

[Robert59]

Larry Hester is the seventh person in the U.S. to have a so-called bionic eye - an Argus II Retinal Prosthesis Device -- implanted. It allows him to see for the first time in 33 years.
As the lights dimmed in the exam room, Larry Hester fixed his gaze forward and waited nervously. Paul Hahn, MD, a retinal surgeon at the Duke Eye Center, counted backward from three and pressed a button, activating Hester’s newly implanted bionic eye.

https://www.dukehealth.org/blog/ncs-first-bionic-eye-recipient-sees-first-time-33-years

 

[Aunt Marg]

I hope that one day the likes of things such as blindness are but a thing of the past.

 

[Gaer]

This is SO WONDERFUL!

 

[fmdog44]

Yet some poo-poo science. What the future holds is nothing less than miraculous.