An Ottawa-based company is working to improve the effectiveness of vision-restoring technology with its Diamond Eye implant.
iBionics believes it can help blind people recover a new level of visual clarity. The Diamond Eye implant is surgically placed in the back of the eye. Data from a camera mounted on a pair of eyeglasses is sent wirelessly to the implant. The implant translates the data into signals the brain can understand.
“It’s essentially a bionic retina,” says co-founder and chief executive officer Suzanne Grant. “We want to do for blind people what cochlear implants are doing for deaf people.”