---
title: "A Biotech Startup Wants To Replace Your Eyeballs With Synthetic Ones"
description: "The concept is called Enhance Your Eye (EYE, of course) and are made from a 3D bioprinter, which uses a special needle to drop different types of cells into the appropriate alignment and structure."
date: "2015-04-21"
modified: "2015-08-13"
authors:
  - name: "Kayleen Carr"
    link: "https://futurism.com/authors/kayleen"
url: "https://futurism.com/a-biotech-startup-wants-to-replace-your-eyeballs-with-synthetic-ones"
categories:
  - "Robots and Machines"
tags:
  - "nanotech"
---

# A Biotech Startup Wants To Replace Your Eyeballs With Synthetic Ones

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- The way Nassetti envisions it, users could choose between three different types of synthetic EYEs: Heal, Enhance, and Advance. The first is a synthetic eye that basically works just like a natural one and could serve as a replacement for people with diseases or traumas that would otherwise be blind.
- EYE Enhance seeks to improve the eye’s natural functions by improving vision to 15/20 and enabling filters on vision like those on photo apps (such as vintage, black and white).To turn on or change the filter, a user can take a pill. The third type, Advance, has additional glands to capture or record what a person is seeing, as well as a Wi-Fi connection to share those images.
- In order to use an EYE system, people would need to get their natural eyes surgically removed and replaced with the Deck, a sort of artificial retina that connects to the brain and would allow users to plug in different eyeballs at will.