FDA Approves First Implantable Miniature Telescope. Bionic eyes are here!

The FDA just announced they have approved a “Implantable Miniature Telescope (IMT)” that can be implanted on one eye.

“The IMT is a small telescope that replaces the natural lens and provides an image that has been magnified more than two times…The IMT is available in two models: one that provides 2.2 times magnification and another 2.7 times magnification. The IMT is designed to magnify and project images onto a healthy portion of the retina. The IMT is intended to be implanted in only one eye; the non-implanted eye is used for peripheral vision.”

Dude. With just a little tweak, I’m sure these can be bionic eyes like the Six Million Dollar Man had!

Artificial limbs! Bionic eyes! I didn’t think the future would look so… well, so plain and normal.

There’s a lot of things in the “bad” column for these sets of eyes, but since this is the “1.0” version, the next version should have a lot of the bugs worked out.

Here’s the link to the FDA article.