The Guardian
People.com
A clinical trial of a tiny electronic eye implant (often called the PRIMA system) has succeeded in restoring useful vision to people with advanced dry age-related macular degeneration (AMD) — a condition where the central retina has degenerated.
Many participants could read letters and numbers again through the eye that had lost all central vision.
This isn’t just cosmetic — it’s functional sight, mediated by a microchip under the retina + an augmented-reality glasses-camera system that converts light into signals the brain can interpret.
This is likely the first human eye procedure of its kind where vision that was formerly gone has been restored via an implant — essentially giving the eye a new “seeing” mechanism.
