India, Oct. 20 -- London (PAMedia/dpa) - People who have lost their vision because of a common but untreatable age-related condition are now able to read again thanks to a pioneering electronic eye implant. The tiny Prima device is just 2mm by 2mm and has half the thickness of a human hair. Fitted under the layer of light-sensitive tissue in the eye called the retina, it allows patients to see letters, numbers and words through an eye that was previously blind. Some can now even do crosswords and read the tiny text on prescriptions using the so-called "prosthetic vision". This breakthrough has never been achieved before, and represents a "paradigm shift" in artificial vision, experts said. They are also hopeful the technology could one day ...