A cure for blindness?

Like with hearing, it was simply a matter of time:  new hardware and better software have always guaranteed that we would be able to cure functional sensory deficits.  Now, on to cognition?  Read the whole thing.

Neuroscientist Sheila Nirenberg, of Weill Cornell Medical College in New York, and postdoctoral student Chethan Pandarinath have enabled blind mice to see nearly normal images of everything from human and animal faces to complex panoramas of Central Park.