[optacon-l] Re: Brainport
- From: Suzanne Erb <suzerb1@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: optacon-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2012 11:16:46 -0500
Of course, this is part of the evolutionary process. I also believe that this
offers more possibilities than an implant would. I wonder about the long-term
effects on the tongue
Suzanne.
On Nov 5, 2012, at 11:07 AM, "Tracy Carcione" <carcione@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I looked up the brainport on Google. It is a system consisting of a video
> camera that sends impulses to a device placed on the tongue. I remember
> hearing the tongue device is a bit like a lollipop.
> It sounds very interesting, though I'm not keen on having something on my
> tongue.
> Tracy
>> Wound not facial vistion/perception and echo location accomplish the same
>> result s the brain port?
>>
>> Charles
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>> From: Nick Dotson
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>> Subject: [optacon-l] Re: Optacon Alternatives using current technologies
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>> We guinea pigs get to use it for a year. Mine ends in March.
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>> I also realize what I understand as color is actually gray-scale data, but
>> it is the closest I've experienced to the visual textural differences I
>> can
>> rerecognize as particular colors as my sighted cohorts see/experience
>> them.
>> And, there is much I'd like to be able to see that I just can't yet or
>> possibly ever interpolate rapidly enough to make it useful in a particular
>> context.
>>
>> For instance, I'd like to be able to get useful data from pictures on the
>> internet to see various buildings, air and space craft, animals, people,
>> Etc. but practically I'm not going to learn that in a year anymore than an
>> infant can learn to use their visual sensorum in all of its facilities in
>> their first year, nor do all sighted people use their sight with equal
>> efficacy... However, I suppose for a congenitally blind child, energy
>> levels and refractory time would be much improved... And, as I alluded to
>> before, looking at an object and isolating it from its surroundings in
>> varying lighting conditions isn't a particularly easy trick either.
>> Whereas, with the Optacon, one has more control of and relatively fewer
>> variables to contend with in the print environment and the essentially
>> binary nature of the reading experience, that is, a reed is either
>> vibrating
>> to indicate a pixel in the matrix or it isn't. (smile)
>>
>> Nick
>>
>> D.O.S. Depend On Science
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>> Sent: Sunday, November 04, 2012 8:27 PM
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>> Subject: [optacon-l] Re: Optacon Alternatives using current technologies
>> and
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>> Nick, how long did it take you to adjust to the brain port? Did it take a
>> few months or a couple of years? Although I was born with some partial
>> sight, I realize that anyone without sight for a period of years would
>> have
>> to learn to see like a stroke patient has to learn to walk again.
>>
>> DOG - Depend on God,
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>> Carolyn
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