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The bionic eye is a colloquial name given to a visual prosthesis—an electrical device that assists in restoring a sense of vision to the user.

... a retinal implant which converts video images from a miniature video camera worn on his glasses.

Visual prostheses, or “bionic eyes”, promise to provide artificial vision to visually impaired people who could previously see. The devices consist of micro-electrodes surgically placed in or near one eye, along the optic nerve (which transmits impulses from the eye to the brain), or in the brain.

The objective of BIONIC EYE is the same as to restore visual signal to whom suffering from eye disease such as retinitis pigmentosa.

BVT’s Bionic Eye System consists of a wearable device and visual implant similar in concept and design to that used by cochlear hearing implants.