LiveMint, Wall Street Journal‘s Indian business website, is reporting that California’s Doheny Eye Institute is teaming up with a hospital in Bangalore to conduct the second phase of trial of the bionic vision device from Second Sight Medical of Sylmar, California. We believe this is the Argus II device, mentioned here on many occasions, a 60 electrode array that interfaces with the brain to provide basic eyesight for the totally blind. LiveMint reports that in addition to a clinical investigation of device’s efficacy, benefit and safety, the researchers will work on making Argus II more affordable. The company wants to make the device cost less than $10,000.
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Flashbacks: Argus II Retinal Prosthesis Implanted Into First Two Patients in Europe ; Second Sight Medical Retinal Prosthesis Receives FDA Approval for Clinical Trials ; Second Sight Implant: Positive Results Reported in the Study; Diamond Coating for Second Sight Implant
Second Sight Medical Retinal Prosthesis to Receive a Wider Trial
November 6th, 2008 
Medgadget Editors Ophthalmology