The Argus II is Second Sight a bionic eye that has just been approved to be sold in the United States.
The Argus II consists of two main parts: an artificial retina is one which has electrodes that are implanted through cirguia in the patient's eye and the other is a pair of glasses fitted with a camera and a visual processor. The camera takes care of capturing all that "we", send the information to the processor and this is responsible for distributing the artificial retina, allowing us to "see".
What does this mean? That contrary to what many expected, the Argus II is a restorer of vision as it sounds, it just provides the person with enough so you can walk by itself.
As an analogy, people of Pop Sci has said it's like watching TV on a screen of 60 pixels.
Below is a video showing how the device, which incidentally has a cost of $ 150,000, although this does not include surgery. The procedure can only be performed in seven hospitals across the United States. No news for the rest of the globe.
