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HTTP:: New Tongue Device Allows the Blind to See
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Blindness is arguably one of the things that have the ability to turn someone's life around. The disease carries a huge mental and physical strain on its victim, especially if the patient was not born blind. As such, finding a cure for its developed forms has been a long-standing goal for experts, one that has come closer to fulfillment in recent years. A new device brings the objective even closer. Made up of black sunglasses and an electric “lollipop,” the instrument promises to allow the blind and the visually impaired to sense some of the things around them. The basis of the new BrainPort device relies on a hypothesis set forth in the 1960s by now-late neuroscientist Paul Bach-y-Rita, Scientific American reports. The expert then proposed that we actually saw with our brain, and not the eyes themselves, which were only a conduit for optical/electrical signals. As such, the new system makes use of this idea in an innovative way. The black sunglasses are outfitted wi!
th small cameras, which collect images from the environment. These images are then sent to a handheld, central processing unit, which, among other things, converts the light waves into electrical signals, in very much the same way the human retina does in the healthy eye. The signals are then transmitted into an electrode array, loc...
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