British soldier Craig Lundberg of Walton, Merseyside, England was blinded by a by a rocket propelled grenade in Iraq in 2007. He has been fitted with a prototype BrainPort device that converts images from a video camera in his goggles into electrical impulses send to a plate in his mouth that he can read with his tongue.
Link to story (with video). -via Arbroath
http://vision.wicab.com/technology/ to BrainPort Technologies.
L/Cpl Lundberg said it felt like "licking a nine volt battery or like popping candy".
"You get lines and shapes of things, it sees in black and white so you get a two dimensional image on your tongue, it's a bit like a pins and needles sensation," he said.
"It's only a prototype, but the potential to change my life is massive, it's got a lot of potential to advance things for blind people.
"One of the things it has enabled me to do is pick up objects straight away, I can reach out and pick them up when before I would be fumbling around to feel for them."
Link to story (with video). -via Arbroath
http://vision.wicab.com/technology/ to BrainPort Technologies.
Neat but I remember reading about these things in the 80's. It takes this long to go from a prototype or just no funding?
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It's funny how nobody cares. :D :X
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this is not funny ....how nobody cares.
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"Man, this chocolate cake reminds me of that sculpture near the courthouse!"
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