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Comment by Sweettina2 on August 31, 2012 at 3:34pm

Amazing!  This video shows a deaf baby hearing his mother for the first time.  I cry every time I see it:

Comment by truth on August 30, 2012 at 5:17pm

A bionic eye has given an Australian woman partial sight and researchers say it is an important step towards eventually helping visually impaired people get around independently.

Dianne Ashworth, who has severe vision loss due to the inherited condition retinitis pigmentosa, was fitted with a prototype bionic eye in May at the Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital. It was switched on a month later.

“All of a sudden I could see a little flash … it was amazing,” she said in a statement.

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