Engineering360: "Synthetic Retina for the blind"

The eye is a masterpiece. Its neurological fabric is extraordinary, at once very sensitive and very durable.

For all the bionics coming along, 3-D bionic neurology is a candidate for the Holy Grail. The retina is good start - more like a dozen layers of micron scale circuit boards integrated with each other through at least a couple layers of ''pure'' processors refining on average about 100 million sensor signals many times per second appropriately relayed down the optic nerve. Putting all this together as a physically and functionally durable and stable bionic implant boggles the mind. I imagine quantum computing is an early entry in the process.