Artificial retina restores (some) sight to the blind Contra Costa Times - 03/02/2010 When Dean Lloyd, a 68-year-old Palo Alto, Calif., lawyer, was in his mid-30s, a hereditary eye disease began taking his sight. By his late 40s, he was completely blind. So when a clinical trial started to test an artificial retina which would restore at least partial sight, he seized the opportunity. It didn’t hurt that he was a longtime science aficionado, and fascinated by the new technology. Read the entire article at: http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2010/mar/02/unblinded-by-science/ Links: Second Sight Medical Products http://www.2-sight.com/ New technology gives hope for the blind (video) http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=news/health&id=7389013 Argus II http://www.robots.ox.ac.uk/~argus/ Artificial Retina Project http://artificialretina.energy.gov/ How does a "bionic eye" allow blind people to see? http://health.howstuffworks.com/bionic-eye.htm