MAGAZINE
April 10, 2005 | Tracie White, Tracie White last wrote for the magazine about a student at Harvey Mudd College.
It took years to get to this place in the forefront of one of the world's most obscure professions. No, not just years. Let's be precise. It took generations of German craftsmen bent low over workshop tables. Painstaking hours of detailed work to get it just right. Perfectionism. Discipline passed down from grandfather to father to son. All in the pursuit of one goal: to build the perfect simulation of a human eye.