What do you say about bionics, a powerful technology that crosses physical barriers?

Visual bionics

Bionic eyes - or visual nervous system nose prostheses, also known as visual bionics - are microbial electronics prostheses that restore functional eye vision to partially or completely blind people. Researchers and device manufacturers of bionic eyes have encountered 2 key tests: emulating the functional multiplicity of the macula in the fundus and their consumer preferences (and constraints) for small devices that can be embedded in the eye. Even with this test, the visual bionics market segment is still filled with device prototypes and some commercialized products.

One of the best-known players in this space is SecondSight Medical Device Products of Sylmar, Calif. SecondSight's ArgusII nose prosthesis consists of an array of microelectronics embedded in the macula of the fundus, a wearable camera, and image-control components. A camera integrated into the near-sightedness glasses captures the image and transmits it to a portable control unit, which pushes electronic signals to the embedded array over a wireless network.

Instead, the array converts these signals into pulses of electricity that stimulate retinal cells that are sexually connected to nerves in the eye. ArgusII is thus an important link between the object and the eye's nerves, bypassing damaged photoreceptors (such as pigmentary retinal atrophy, a degenerative eye disease). Bionic Vision Australia research consortium, France-based PixiumVision, and German company RetinalImplantAG already utilize a similar process.

Auditory bionics

Cochlear implants, auditory spinal cord prostheses and auditory cortical prostheses are the three types of neurological nose prosthetic devices for patients with more severe hearing loss. Audiobionics establishes an artificial link between the source of the sound and the human brain - and in view of this embeds microelectronic arrays in the inner ear or spinal cord. Auditory bionics is more mature as a technology than visual bionics, with a greater ecosystem of innovation, more commercial products, and greater global adoption. The sales market is centered on CochlearLimited (Australia), AdvancedBionics (USA), a unit of Sonova, MED-EL (Austria) and a series of its smaller regional companies.

Orthopaedic Bionics

Based on information from the World Health Organization, more than 1 billion people (approximately 15% of the global population) suffer from some form of physical disability, and approximately 190 million adults suffer from very serious functional problems. Orthopaedic bionics is dedicated to the restoration of motor (not necessarily sensory) function. Bionic limbs have replaced prosthetics, and while significant autonomous innovation has resulted in lighter devices and better design solutions, prosthetics do not give the necessary functional restoration that bionic devices do today. The bionic body interfaces with the patient's neuromuscular system, applying the brain to control the body - bending, flexing and grasping objects. A similar modus operandi exists here: bypassing damaged adductor nerves, new electronic channels interconnect the mechatronic limb with the human brain.

The future of bionics

RS Components, a supplier of industrial products, has used its research to confirm that diagnostic devices will be used in the future in the internal structure of our bodies. It describes recent trends, such as the mind-controlled, intelligent robotic legs built at the Center for Bionic Medicine and its battery-powered cardiovascular from SynCardia, scraping the surface for future projections of medical technology. The research also predicts analysis that by 2035, along with sensors that can track large amounts of data signals, such as electromagnetic waves and x-rays, we may be able to enhance their sensory perception, potentially allowing blind people to walk based on ultrasound waves.

Dr. Ian Pearson said that by 2050, people might even be able to create accurate copies of the human brain, which he described as the equivalent of "having your own regiment". Closer to our lives at this stage is human liver bloat, which detects a person's blood sugar and automatically adjusts insulin levels to suit his body's needs. This device is becoming more widespread with the introduction of goods from companies such as Medtronic (Medtronic) and academic institutions such as the University of Cambridge (CambridgeUniversity).