A man who lost his sight 30 years ago says he can now see flashes of light after being fitted with a bionic eye.
Ron, 73, had the experimental surgery seven months ago at London's Moorfield's eye hospital.
He says he can now follow white lines on the road, and even sort socks, using the bionic eye, known as Argus II.
It uses a camera and video processor mounted on sunglasses to send captured images wirelessly to a tiny receiver on the outside of the eye...
Read more and watch video @ BBC News
Also, How the bionic eye works.
Not as good as the original story, but its still very good.
Read more @ The Register
Watch the video:
EYEBORG-- The Two Week Trial from eyeborg on Vimeo.
"For too long, we have been a passively tolerant society, saying to our citizens 'as long as you obey the law, we will leave you alone'" - David Cameron, UK Prime Minister. 13 May 2015.
Wanna hear a more amazing story..... I'll tell you anyway.
Qatada (ra) was hit by an arrow and one of his eyeballs came out and was hanging by his cheeks. He held it with his hand and went to the Prophet (saw). The Prophet used his hand to replace the eyeball in its socket and the eye healed at once.
The eye which was put back in became even better than the other one.
The story was narrated to us by a shaykh and that's all I know.
He was telling us stories of the different ways the Prophet healed people.
There is another story if you're interested...
Abu Bakr (ra) and the Prophet were traveling and decided to take shelter in a cave. Abu Bakr decided that he would go in first and check before the Prophet went in.
He went in, and blocked all the holes in the cave except two.
They went in and Abu Bakr sat down and blocked the two holes with his feet.
The Prophet went to sleep, resting his head on Abu Bakr's lap.
A snake bit Abu Bakr from inside one of the holes and Abu Bakr was in pain but he didn't move as he feared that he might wake up the Prophet (saw). However he started sweating.
A drop of his sweat fell onto the Prophet and he woke up and asked Abu Bakr what was wrong with him, and he said what had happened.
The Prophet wiped his saliva on the feet of Abu Bakr and it healed instantly.
I thought you would be pleased
Now, that would be prejudice!
Actually, I think its a good idea to be wary of anything that can bite you - especially if its poisonous.
"For too long, we have been a passively tolerant society, saying to our citizens 'as long as you obey the law, we will leave you alone'" - David Cameron, UK Prime Minister. 13 May 2015.