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Bionic Eye Allows Man to See His Wife After a Decade

Videotape shows a touching moment of tears and laughter.

A Minnesota man who lost his sight to retinitis pigmentosa was able to see his wife for the first time in roughly ten years thanks to a retinal prosthesis system devised by Second Sight. The couple was videotaped at the Mayo Clinic as 68-year-old Allen Zderad faced wife Carmen with his new bionic eye, calling the image of her “crude but significant.”

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