Bionic eye-Lets Blind man see again!

Technology!What clicks your mind when you heard this term?Technology is nothing but a building standing on a base called science.And with the days passing by-technology is also advancing beyond the limit that a man can ever see and today i will say you about a technology or a technological device known as Argus 2 or The Bionic eye.What if i tell you that if you are blind then you will not be for long enough.Yes,this small spectacle like device called Argus 2 will help a blind man see again.Let me relate this fact with a real life story so that it can be more clear for you.

Roger Pontz a US Resident lost his eyesight completely at the age of 40 when all the surgery failed to improve his eyesight.He was suffering from a disease called retinitis pigmentosa.Roger and his family lost all their hope but then one day Roger heard that a device name Argus 2 is on experimentation.He was stunned to hear what the device could do.He was interviewed in which he said "At that time it was all experiment so nothing i was sure off but i was very excited as there was hope that i can regain some of my eyesight so i had a belief that this experiment would someday turn into success and so it has". Today Roger can see only through the help of Bionic eye.

So How this bionic eye works?Bionic eye is a type of device which has small camera mounted on it to processes images.A eraser like prosthesis is surgically implanted on the retina of the patient and the information is transferred from the camera wirelessly to the electrodes present in the artificial retina  where it is converted into electrical pulses.Any remaining tissues that hasn't been damaged by the eye disease are stimulated by the electrical pulses generated by the artificial retina to form light pattern in the brain.Though the person cannot see all the things clearly but enough sight is generated so that he can see where he is standing or like who is standing in front of him.

It came to USA only in 2014 after the approval from the food and drug administration of US government.But the technology has already been released three years before in Europe.The American society of ophthalmology said that though this type of surgery brings some complication and so it isn't available for mass public though it is a great news for all those who are blind.Its a great technology and despite it can give you some vague pictures but still its better than being completely blind.

With the success stories of patient like Pontz there is still chance that this technology advances and bionic eye can upgrade itself.Researcher are currently working on it and one day i hope it do gets updated and let a person see

clearly.That would be an amazing Technology.


                                                                                                                   Anuttam Chatterjee