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Bionic Eye

 1. Do you wear classes or contact lenses? If yes, are you short sighted or long sighted? What is 20/20 vision ? Would you ever do          laser eye surgery? 

 2. Listen to the short audio clip, what is it about ?

Bionic Eye - Narrated by Marvin Fernandez
00:0000:00

 3. What do these words mean ? Use your translator to find out.

Ophthalmologist

Optometrist

Acquisition

Surgery

Remarkable

Cataracts

Pending

Procedure

Bionic

Blind

20/20 vision

Candidate

Dim

Bionic

 

4. Listen to the audio clip once again and try to fill in the missing answers from the text below on a seperate sheet of paper.

Bionic Eye - Narrated by Marvin Fernandez
00:0000:00

A new 1.______________ eye lens currently in development would give humans 3x 2._________________, at any age.

 

The lens, named the Ocumetics Bionic Lens, was developed by Dr. Garth Webb, an 3.________________ in British Columbia who was looking for a way to optimize eyesight regardless of a person’s health or age.

 

With this 4.__________________ lens, patients would have perfect vision, ending the need for driving glasses, progressive lenses, and contacts, all of which are set to become a 5_________ memory as the eye-care industry is transformed, CBC reports.

 

Even better is the fact that people who get the lens surgically inserted will never get 6._______________, because the lens replaces that of their natural eye, which inevitably decays over time.

 

Webb says that anyone over the age of 25 is the best 7._________________, because that is when the eye is fully developed.

 

“This is vision enhancement that the world has never seen before,” he says, “If you can just barely see the clock at 10 feet, when you get the 8._____________ Lens you can see the clock at 30 feet away.“

 

The lens, which would be custom-made, is folded like a taco in a saline-filled syringe and placed in the eye, where it unravels itself within 10 seconds.

 

Quick & Painless Surgery

 

Webb says that the 9._____________ can be done within 8 minutes and immediately corrects a patient’s vision.

 

The project has been in the works for the last eight years, Webb told CBC, costing about $3 million in research and development fees, along with the 10.__________________ of international patents and the securing of a biomedical manufacturing facility in Delta, B.C.

 

His mission is fueled by the “obsession” he’s had to free himself and others from corrective lenses since he was in Grade 2, when he was saddled with glasses.

 

“My heroes were cowboys, and cowboys just did not wear glasses,” Webb says.

 

Webb’s efforts were recently recognized after he presented the lens to 14 top 11._________________ in San Diego during a gathering of the American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery.

 

Surgeons from all around the world were intrigued by his “clever” design, Webb says.

 

“I think this device is going to bring us closer to the holy grail of excellent vision at all ranges — distant, intermediate and near,” said Dr. Vincent DeLuise, an ophthalmologist who teaches at both Yale University and Weill Cornell Medical College in New York.

 

Trials & Tribulations

 

12.________________ clinical trials on animals and then 13._____________ human eyes, the Bionic Lens could be available in Canada and elsewhere in about two years, depending on regulatory processes in various countries, Webb says.

 

Webb is hopeful that his lens will do away with the need for laser eye surgery, a 14._____________ that still isn’t as efficient as it could be.

 

“Perfect eyesight should be a human right,” he says.

 

5. Finally, listen to the audio clip and read along at the same time to see if your answers were correct.

Bionic Eye - Narrated by Marvin Fernandez
00:0000:00

A new bionic eye lens currently in development would give humans 3x 20/20 vision, at any age.

 

The lens, named the Ocumetics Bionic Lens, was developed by Dr. Garth Webb, an optometrist in British Columbia who was looking for a way to optimize eyesight regardless of a person’s health or age.

 

With this remarkable lens, patients would have perfect vision, ending the need for driving glasses, progressive lenses, and contacts, all of which are set to become a dim memory as the eye-care industry is transformed, CBC reports.

 

Even better is the fact that people who get the lens surgically inserted will never get cataracts, because the lens replaces that of their natural eye, which inevitably decays over time.

 

Webb says that anyone over the age of 25 is the best candidate, because that is when the eye is fully developed.

 

“This is vision enhancement that the world has never seen before,” he says, “If you can just barely see the clock at 10 feet, when you get the Bionic Lens you can see the clock at 30 feet away.“

 

The lens, which would be custom-made, is folded like a taco in a saline-filled syringe and placed in the eye, where it unravels itself within 10 seconds.

 

Quick & Painless Surgery

 

Webb says that the surgery can be done within 8 minutes and immediately corrects a patient’s vision.

 

The project has been in the works for the last eight years, Webb told CBC, costing about $3 million in research and development fees, along with the acquisition of international patents and the securing of a biomedical manufacturing facility in Delta, B.C.

 

His mission is fueled by the “obsession” he’s had to free himself and others from corrective lenses since he was in Grade 2, when he was saddled with glasses.

 

“My heroes were cowboys, and cowboys just did not wear glasses,” Webb says.

 

Webb’s efforts were recently recognized after he presented the lens to 14 top ophthalmologists in San Diego during a gathering of the American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery.

 

Surgeons from all around the world were intrigued by his “clever” design, Webb says.

 

“I think this device is going to bring us closer to the holy grail of excellent vision at all ranges — distant, intermediate and near,” said Dr. Vincent DeLuise, an ophthalmologist who teaches at both Yale University and Weill Cornell Medical College in New York.

 

Trials & Tribulations

 

Pending clinical trials on animals and then blind human eyes, the Bionic Lens could be available in Canada and elsewhere in about two years, depending on regulatory processes in various countries, Webb says.

 

Webb is hopeful that his lens will do away with the need for laser eye surgery, a procedure that still isn’t as efficient as it could be.

 

“Perfect eyesight should be a human right,” he says.

 

 Article by Jeff Roberts taken from collective-evolution.com for use only as an English language learning tool...........and to help people awaken and expand their consciousness.

"Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality."

                                                                       Warren Bennis

 

"Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others."

                                                                        Jonathan Swift

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