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BBC NEWS | Health | Bionic eye gives blind man sight
A 73-year-old British man who had lost his sight 30 years ago is no able to see well enough to sort socks, thanks to a recently-implanted bionic eye. The system consists of a camera mounted in a pair of sunglasses that then transmits the information to an electrode array mounted on his retina.