Re:Artificial retina (Score 1)

You know your jargon. Yes multi-electrode arrays. You are probably already aware of Meister's work then. If not here is a reference to look at: Meister, M.(1996). Multineuronal codes in retinal signaling, Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A,93, 609-14. I am the postdoc in Steve Potter's Lab who did that work on the neurally controlled robots. I am now at Univ. of Florida continuing that work among others.. Your right, however, that the vision prosthetics are a long way off.. I aggree. It will be sometime. There are some crude devices out there, but none seem to last more than a few months without signal degradation. The key will be to find ways to improve on this using both biological and technological approaches in my opinion. It is really good to see a lot more researchers working on these areas. Hopefully that will speed up the time in which we can make a difference in peoples lives (aka restoring sight to someone that cannot see, or to restore movement, seems to me to be the best goal one can have).