On the front of its Style section, the Washington Post reports that after losing an eye in a car accident, Tanya Vlach, of San Francisco, CA, wants a new computer eye to replace the natural one she lost. After she put a request for help out on the Internet, Vlach was deluged by tons and tons of responses from hundreds of young techies, some of whom wanted to fit a cell phone camera...into Vlach's beautiful but merely decorative blue acrylic orb.

Vlach settled upon Frank Oliver, 37, whose start-up company, Artisan Robotics, focuses on cutting-edge materials science and power systems for aerospace and military robots. Oliver believes it may take two or three years to develop the eye.

James Weiland, a retinal prosthesis researcher at the University of Southern California's Artificial Retina Project, said the project is not insurmountable, but so many components have to come together that it would be...a challenge.

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