fred van lente is one of seventy people around the world who are being fitted with the august two retinal prosthesis system a device that is giving back some sight to people suffering from certain types of blindness in the past i have seen i played football and for the kill kind of thing i can walk i can buy a bicycle it was not in one time i didn't go in fairing very slowly by the time you were thirty four you could not see yes i don't know. your wife tanya have you ever seen her face yes. when i was thirty four and she was twenty nine i'm not fifty eight years old in my mind she is still twenty nine years old i could think either i thought you were laid out how do you feel being only the third person in the country to have this. yes this. is the surgeon who will be operating on friday. it's exciting technology that is basically a little microchip we implant in the eye. blind people that are affected by everything like this because those are thanks to this. light in a healthy i the photo receptors in the retina converts light into electro chemical impulses that are sent through the optic