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INSIDE A BIONIC EYE

n the TV series , the Enterprise’s blind chief engineer Geordi La Forge wore a device that allowed him to see – but that was in the fictional 24th century. Technology that can replicate the functions of the human eye has always remained firmly within the realms of science fiction, until now that is. Advances in science have seen the creation of bionic eyes that, for the very first time, are restoring hope to the many people who are

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