Future eye transplants a reality?

Pandarilla · May 17, 2011

http://www.popsci.com/technology/ar...uld-mimic-neurons-allowing-blind-patients-see

His solution is to embed a nanoscale clump of material onto the photodiode, which would self-assemble into fractal shapes. The clump would be deposited onto a photodiode using an inert gas. Eye surgeons would implant the fractal-enhanced devices inside the eyes of patients who have lost their vision, and the improved neuron interface would enable more light information to be relayed to the optic nerve. It would work with almost 100 percent efficiency, according to a University of Oregon news release.
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The cones in your eye are concentrated at the center, so your eye tends to see items directly in front of it — this means you have to continually move your eyes around to see small areas. But a camera’s photoreceptors are distributed evenly, allowing a camera to see everything in its field of view. If our eyes saw like a camera, with a uniform distribution of receptors, there would be so much stimuli in our view that our brains could never process it all, according to Taylor.

Instead, our eyes exploit fractal patterns found throughout nature to make information-processing simpler. Retinal implant designs should account for these differences, Taylor wrote.

“Remarkably, implants based purely on camera designs might allow blind people to see, but they might only see a world devoid of stress-reducing beauty. This flaw emphasizes the subtleties of the human visual system and the potential downfalls of adopting, rather than adapting, camera technology for eyes,” he wrote.
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I'm taking my mother to the eye doctor for macular degeneration. Guess what topic of conversation I'm bringing up with the Latina nurse with the nice booty...

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