Vision research month is an important matter to all of us, regardless of ones current eye sight.   We engrave medical jewelry and medical ID bracelets with many different conditions such as glaucoma, macular degeneration, and cataracts which is a reminder to myself of just how important we further obtain more information and solutions for our eyesight.

I coach athletes who are legally blind—I accompanied two of them to sight classification at Canadian Goalball Senior Nationals in Toronto in April, and (finally) both of the guys, who have prosthetic eyes, won’t have to be classified again in the future—I joked that was "unless robot eyes are invented".

While my term of “robot eyes” is slightly closer to the actual term “bionic eye”, these de