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Secrets of Sight

Posted by michael on from the i-can-see-clearly-now dept.

ephraim writes: "A group of scientists has discovered that the secret to sight involves just 10-12 "output channels" between the eye and the brain. One of the researchers explains that "Even though we think we see the world so fully, what we are receiving is really just hints, edges in space and time." MSNBC has the story here. This appears to be the first of many steps towards creating a bionic eye."

6 comments

  1. What about the bunny? by gurgi · · Score: 2

    I am all for resurch like this, and love to eat meat, but I do not like to think how they measured the nerve impulses behind the eye in a living bunny... bunnys are just to cute to be used in this way.

  2. Interesting... by Manaveru · · Score: 1

    but not much information in the article. I can see some cool use for this... CyberPunk opticals Get rid of screens Giving back sight to blind people. But I doubt we'll see any practical use for *some* years. BTW.... FP?

    1. Re:Interesting... by alister667 · · Score: 1

      The eye has got to be using some kind of organic compression system, so that the information can be transmitted to the brain then rebuilt to give us the visual 'display' we currently have. If some bright spark worked out exactly how this happens we could probably see greatly increased frame rates in Quake 17. Oh, and artificial eyes would be cool too.

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  3. Re:Heres a little number I recently popped off.... by QuokkaNetGuru · · Score: 1

    You GOON, quoting an incredibly famous Monty Python bit and claiming it as your own is SO lame.
    All your Penis Song are Belong to Monty Python

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  4. Would this be more like... by Dancin_Santa · · Score: 2

    This
    or
    That

    Dancin Santa

  5. Eyesight by Cheese_isgood · · Score: 1

    True! What we view is only a portion of the actual object and our mind fills in the missing parts. But what if what we see is really what the objects are? What if we fill in "holes" of objects that really are there instead of the ones we invision?

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