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Eye, robot..blind bookworm can read again
Irish Daily Star
|October 21, 2025
A BOOKWORM who went blind is able to read again after becoming one of the first people in the world to be given a bionic eye.
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Sheila Irvine, 70, has geographic atrophy, an advanced stage of age-related macular degeneration.
But she has been able to learn to read and write again after the tiny 2mm by 2mm Prima chip was fitted behind her retina at the world-renowned Moorfields Eye Hospital in London.
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