Bionic eye company going out of business, leaving patients "in the dark"

Hundreds of recipients of retinal implants will be 'in the dark' after the company makes them goes out of business—an outcome expected imminently after layoffs at Second Sight, which no longer makes the devices.

These three patients, and more than 350 other blind people around the world with Second Sight's implants in their eyes, find themselves in a world in which the technology that transformed their lives is just another obsolete gadget. — Read the rest