Saturday, 16 June 2012

Sci-tech: The wondrous world of science developed a device “BrainPort” that helps users see without their eyes

Hope for the blind

Neuroscientists at the Wisconsin-based Wicab, Inc. have developed a device “BrainPort” that helps users see without their eyes. According to the late co-founder of the company, the neuroscientist Paul Bach-y-Rita, we see with our brains and not with our eyes, so that it should be possible to develop devices that allow the blind to see.

The device involves collecting visual data using a small digital camera that the blind person wears on sunglasses. The digital

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