What’s next for vision prosthesis?

It’s the article that rocked the bioelectronic medicine movement. “Their Bionic Eyes are Now Obsolete and Unsupported” was published by IEEE Spectrum in February 2022. The feature highlighted the many people who were left without support for their implanted devices after Second Sight, the company that offered the devices, closed their doors. The story brought a new spotlight to a long-standing problem. People left with implanted medical devices without support is not a new problem. We’ve experienced it in the past with DBS (deep brain stimulation) trials for mental health conditions, the closing of NeuroControl leaving people “paralyzed again”, and even BCI (brain computer interfaces) with the demise of Cyberkinetics. What has changed is the number of people living with implanted devices has grown significantly over the last decade since the inception of the BRAIN initiative in 2013. It is now at a point that the issue can no longer be swept under the rug but tackled with a collaborative approach. <a href="https://medium.com/neurotech-network/whats-next-for-vision-prosthesis-7b0f775dfd18">Visit Now</a>