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Human Augmentation · Recorded milestone

Retinal implant for the blind

Recorded year2011

Second Sight's Argus II, a glasses camera wired to an eye implant, wins European approval and gives blind people light and shapes.

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Dataset updated 2026-10-18. This individual record has not been separately re-reviewed.