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Article: WITH BIONIC EYES, BLIND PEOPLE CAN SEE -- A LITTLE BIT SO FAR, SIX PATIENTS HAVE GOTTEN BIONIC EYE IMPLANTS, AND THERE'S HOPE THAT SCIENCE CAN IMPROVE THE DEVICES.(FRONT)
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- The Wisconsin State Journal (Madison, WI)
- Article date:
- May 27, 2002
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Byline: Jim Krane AP technology writer
NEW YORK -- When 68-year-old Robert Rosene became a bionic-eyed man, he didn't get the Six Million Dollar Man's telescopic vision.
Rosene, of St. Charles, Ill., was all but pitch-black blind before getting a microchip slipped into his retina last year. He now sees globs of light and shadow, but not his wife's face.
For Cora Jean Kleppe, 73, who got a bionic ear last month, silence has been upended by a cascade of sounds: the ding of the microwave oven, the eager chatter of her grandkids and the tweeting of birds in her San Mateo, Calif., garden.
So far, just six patients have gotten experimental ...