For patients who have lost their vision due to degenerative retinal disease, the dream of seeing again might just be a reality with Second Sight's Argus II Retinal Prosthesis System, aka “the bionic eye”.

Scientists at Johns Hopkins University are developing a new early warning system for seizures that is sensitive enough to detect imminent seizures without setting off a large number of false alarms.

Researchers at IBM have been working on a cognitive computing project called Systems of Neuromorphic Adaptive Plastic Scalable Electronics (SyNAPSE).