The “Bionic Eye” can be dated back to 1755. Before the many vaccines and treatments we have today, when highly spreading epidemics would occur, patients would become blind due to high fever. “French scientist Charles Leroy discharged the static electricity from a Leyden jar, into a blind patient’s body using two wires. One tightened just above the eyes and the other wrapped around the legs. The effect of this caused the experience on a flame like sensation passing downward in front of the eye.”1 This was the first time an electrical device successfully performed a flicker of visual perception. Now-a-days we have come a long way in our technology of prosthetics. New Visual prostheses aim to provide patients with visual information by stimulating
