Inspired by fictional cyborgs like Terminator, a team of researchers at the University of Michigan and the University of Pittsburgh has made the first bionic particles from semiconductors and proteins ...

is The Verge’s executive editor. He has covered tech, policy, and online creators for over a decade. The latest bionic hand can do a lot more than just let its wearer hold things: it can actually let ...

BOSTON – One by one survivors who lost limbs in the Boston Marathon bombings crossed the finish line in Saturday's tribute run. Heather Abbott on a running blade. Celeste Corcoran with two prosthetic ...

Bionic pancreas would manage blood sugar levels%2C with help from iPhone app Researchers hope to have device on the market in 2017 About 1 in 10 U.S. adults suffers from diabetes JACKSON, Miss. -- ...

The first glasses in the world, it seems, were created some 700 years ago. It's taken until this year, 2014, for patients to receive the first FDA-approved bionic eyes. This breakthrough comes via ...

A French startup has turned to crowdfunding to build an extremely light bionic bird that can be controlled using the magnetometer and accelerometer in a smartphone. The bird, currently at the ...

For those who suffer from Type 1 diabetes, food can kill. Unable to produce insulin, a hormone that removes sugar from the blood, diabetics must watch what they eat — very carefully. Blood tests ...

DETROIT – A “bionic eye” may now help blind patients regain at least a sense of vision. Linda Schulte, the first patient with the implanted technology since it was approved by the Food and Drug ...

Bertolt Meyer was born without a lower left arm. He started wearing his first prosthesis, or artificial arm, when he was 3 months old. Now at age 37, Meyer wears the futuristic i-limb — a high-tech ...

In this April 16, 2014 image from video Dr. Thiran Jayasundera, left, looks at Roger Pontz's left eye as Pontz's wife, Terri Pontz, right, looks on at the University of Michigan Kellogg Eye Center on ...