Future bionic eye, illustration. These designs for bionic eyes are based on cortical implants (left) and retinal implants (right). Images from an exte

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Future bionic eye, illustration. These designs for bionic eyes are based on cortical implants (left) and retinal implants (right). Images from an external camera pass to a video processing unit, to an antenna, and then to the implant which stimulates the cortical region of the brain, or the retina, to provide the sensation of vision. The quality of the resulting vision can range from perfect clarity ('E' at bottom left) to distinguishing less well-defined regions of light and dark (pixellated 'E', lower left). Future advances may include adding to the range of human sight to produce a superhuman level of vision.

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