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The Boston Retinal Implant Project recently developed a bionic eye implant that will restore vision to people affected by the degenerative blindness. The device works that implant in the back of the eyeball and working as a transmitter of light to the brain, where the two are connected by a nerve / wire thinner than a human hair. Now, technology has its limitations, not giving rise to those who are born blind or suffering from glaucoma, nor will it provide the perfect vision.

Only for those who had previously seen, and a semi-functional optic nerve, this is possible. The idea is to be given to blind people a general sense of their environment, enabling them to function at a basic level. But investigators do hope to improve the technology so that users can recognize things like facial expression and detail in the future. [Boston Herald through Crunch Gear].

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