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Bionic Eye: Wireless Cortical Vision Prosthesis

The term “Bionic Eye” referes to a device to help the blind who lost their vision due to diseases like retinitis pigmentosa or macular degeneration. Prof. Jeffrey V. Rosenfeld, (Senior Neurosurgeon, Alfred Hospital and Professor of Surgery, Monash University), and his team has reported on the effective bionic vision results with his team. New development of “Bionic Eye”, using a brain prosthesis, wireless device interface with brain response. Figure 1. Schematic of cortical vision prosthesis system in bionic eye   [1] . The technical word ‘bionic’ was pointed by Maj. Jack E. Steele (1958), Air Force - US. Bionic is an interdisciplinary sharable word from life science ( bio logy) and engineer science (electro nics ) sectors. Engineers have created a new device to support physically challenged people do chores like normal people [2] . In 1970, Bionic was famous with TV series by “The Bionic Woman” and “The Six Million Dollar Man”, highlighted about the various super human intell...