"Without the glasses you can't see a thing, put the glasses on you can suddenly see. You get that wow factor every time you do it." Philip Booth, 60, has had bionic eyes for the last three and a half ...

In a heartwarming moment captured on video, a Minnesota man was finally able to see his wife of 45 years with the aid of a bionic eye implant. Tap to view if on News app. Allen Zderad, 68, was ...

Despite many incredible advances, the functionality of prosthetic limbs remains limited. There's no mystery why any kind of arm or leg that you strap on to the soft exterior surfaces of your body -- ...

More than 350 people have a discontinued retinal implant in their eyeballs. The invention was once a cutting-edge option for restoring sight, but it has been replaced by newer technologies. The ...

EXCLUSIVE: In the documentary Light Darkness Light, which is about to make its North American premiere at DOC NYC, a man who lost his vision gets the opportunity to regain it with the help of an ...

For decades, above-the-knee amputees have had to live with stiff, uncomfortable prosthetics that felt more like rigid tools than natural limbs. As a result, climbing stairs, stepping over objects, or ...

Radio waves are poorly suited for water-based environments such as the ocean, or even the body. A relatively large amount of energy is required for RF signal propagation in water because it is ...

Pixium Vision, a company looking to help circumvent blindness with the use of a bionic implant, may have just been granted a shortcut at the FDA. The French developer received a breakthrough ...

The market for medical bionic implants, or artificial organs, is expected to reach $17.8 billion by 2017, according to a MarketsandMarkets report. The medical bionic implant market was valued at $12.7 ...

The battle over scarce radio spectrum that has embroiled the mobile broadband world even extends to a little-known type of wireless network that promises to reconnect the human nervous system with ...