Wednesday, August 15, 2012

Scientists Reverse Engineer Animal Brains To Create Bionic Prosthetic Eyes

That was my first thought.

Okay. These researchers figured out the coding sequence for the retina/nerve interface. Basically they figured out TCP/IP for your eyes. And they designed an "honest" retina that mimics a regular retina.

I'll stop there for a moment and say WOW. Nicely done, absolutely thoroughly amazing.

But then let's up the ante and have the circuitry they are using employ infrared detection. [wikipedia.org] Not too difficult to do, we've been making these kinds of devices for many decades. And the same goes for a x50 zoom. Easy peasy.

A HUD display would be possible too. Watch the TED lecture at the bottom of the article. This lady KNOWS THE ENCODING that your eyes use! She can actually take the pulses transmitted to the brain and solve them backwards to see what you were looking at! With that kind of knowledge making something that transmits a generated image would be simple.

This is a *gigantic* breakthrough.

Source: http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotScience/~3/cpyaPVpH40w/scientists-reverse-engineer-animal-brains-to-create-bionic-prosthetic-eyes

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