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The bionic eye records everything he sees and contains a 1.5 mm 2, low-resolution video camera, a small round printed circuit board, a wireless video transmitter, which allows him to transmit what he is seeing in real-time to a computer, and a 3-volt rechargeable VARTA microbattery. The eye is not connected to his brain and has not restored his ...
While the technologies that make bionic implants possible are developing gradually, a few successful bionic devices already exist, a well known one being the Australian-invented multi-channel cochlear implant (bionic ear), a device for deaf people. Since the bionic ear, many bionic devices have emerged and work is progressing on bionics ...
The book formed the basis of the TV series The Six Million Dollar Man (and spinoff The Bionic Woman), which popularized, if somewhat inaccurately, the term bionics. (Steele's original meaning was the study of biological organisms to find solutions to engineering problems, a field now also known as biomimetics .)
Bionic body parts used to belong to science fiction, but we are making incredible progress to bring them into our daily life. The latest case is this 80-year-old man from the UK that received a ...
Bionic contact lens, being developed to provide a virtual display; Visual prosthesis, often referred to as a bionic eye, an experimental device intended to restore functional vision; Cochlear implant, often referred to as a bionic ear, provides a sense of sound to a person who is profoundly deaf or severely hard of hearing
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The Bionic Woman (1976 to 1978) Jaime Sommers has an accident and is rebuilt as a cyborg. Blake's 7: Olag Gan, a character, has a brain implant which is supposed to prevent future aggression after being convicted of killing an officer from the oppressive Federation.
Rebekah Marine Paster (born January 7, 1987 [1]), also known as The Bionic Model, is an American model and motivational speaker. She is a congenital amputee and was born without a right forearm. Personal life