"Fantastic technology and a lousy company"
Their Bionic Eyes Are Now Obsolete and Unsupported - IEEE Spectrum
https://spectrum.ieee.org/bionic-eye-obsolete
This is the risk of depending on a bleeding-edge project from a venture-capital startup. The company might not be there in a year — and now you're left with an orphaned device that may or may not continue to work. When it's a doorbell or a toaster, that's one thing. But a retinal implant? Even one that's only a six-by-ten pixel array? That's no laughing matter.
More than 350 people around the world with Second Sight retinal implants aren't laughing. Second Sight left them alone in the dark.
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