The Bionic Eye! #story #technology #shorts
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[{'start': '0.240', 'end': '4.480', 'text': 'Alright, let’s dive into an astonishing\xa0\nreal-life story about technology:'}, {'start': '4.480', 'end': '8.640', 'text': "the birth of the world's first **bionic eye**."}, {'start': '8.640', 'end': '16.080', 'text': 'Imagine it’s the late 2000s. A biomedical engineer\xa0\nnamed **Mark Humayun**, working in California,'}, {'start': '16.080', 'end': '22.320', 'text': 'is obsessed with an audacious idea—restoring\xa0\nvision to the blind. For centuries,'}, {'start': '22.320', 'end': '28.000', 'text': 'blindness was considered irreversible,\xa0\nbut Humayun refused to accept that.'}, {'start': '28.000', 'end': '34.000', 'text': 'He envisioned a future where artificial\xa0\nsight wasn’t just a fantasy but a reality.'}, {'start': '34.000', 'end': '38.640', 'text': 'Through years of relentless research, he\xa0\nand his team developed a revolutionary'}, {'start': '38.640', 'end': '45.120', 'text': 'device called **Argus II**—a retinal\xa0\nimplant that bypassed damaged cells'}, {'start': '45.120', 'end': '51.920', 'text': 'in the eye and transmitted signals directly to\xa0\nthe brain. It functioned like a digital retina,'}, {'start': '51.920', 'end': '58.480', 'text': 'using a tiny camera mounted on a pair of glasses\xa0\nto send electrical impulses to the optic nerve.'}, {'start': '58.480', 'end': '66.320', 'text': 'In 2011, the first human recipient of Argus II—a\xa0\nman who had been blind for nearly 30 years—saw'}, {'start': '66.320', 'end': '73.920', 'text': 'light again. Then shapes. Then movement. Though\xa0\nhis vision wasn’t fully restored, he could detect'}, {'start': '73.920', 'end': '79.920', 'text': 'objects, navigate rooms, and even recognize\xa0\nfaces in a way he never imagined possible.'}, {'start': '79.920', 'end': '86.720', 'text': 'It was a scientific breakthrough that pushed\xa0\nhumanity closer to cyborg-like augmentation.'}]