[optacon-l] Re: Optacon Alternatives using current technologies and funding methodologies
- From: "H & C Arnold" <4carolyna@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <optacon-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2012 17:39:47 -0500
Debbie, how wonderful!
DOG - Depend on God,
Carolyn
----- Original Message -----
From: "Debby Franson" <the.bee@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <optacon-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2012 1:08 AM
Subject: [optacon-l] Re: Optacon Alternatives using current technologies and
funding methodologies
Hi Carolyn and everyone!
Although I have been a total all my life due to ROP, God has let me
actually see enough to be able to describe a brick wall I was walking by, I
remember seeing a baby's face when I was three or four years old and one
day, I had a book on my desk that was part of a series about different
cities in the world. Tactally, I wouldn't have been able to identify the
book, because the three I have are all the same size and the hardbound
books all have the same texture. I just happened to sit down at my desk
and, without any effort read the title, which is "Moscow". I know I read
the right title with my eyes, because I confirmed it with the Optacon. The
short periods of sight that I have mentioned have only lasted for about a
minute, and it was just over the line from total to non-total, not good
sight at all, I'm sure.
Debby
At 08:26 PM 11/4/2012, H & C Arnold wrote
>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,
>
>Carolyn
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Nick Dotson" <nickdotson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>To: <optacon-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Sent: Sunday, November 04, 2012 7:43 PM
>Subject: [optacon-l] Re: Optacon Alternatives using current technologies
>and
>funding methodologies
>
>
>Spoiled Alert--freshness date... (grin)
>
>I'm reposting this, hopefully not wasting too much bandwidth, as I'm not
>sure whether Lucretia saw the other version...
>
>Nick
>Without going into my user perceptions, thus bending non disclosure too
>much; the Brain Port is a pair of glasses with a digital camera on the nose
>bridge. There are 2 cables coming off of the left ear piece. One goes to
>an inter aural display device, we colloquially call the lolly pop which
>sits
>on one's tongue and holds in
>place by closing their teeth on the mouthpiece on the array on the cable
>end. The other cable goes to a controller with which one can vary the
>intensity of the display's electrical stimulation of the neurons on the
>tongue analogously to changing the intensity of the Optacon's display, one
>also changes variables of the image such as brightness, contrast, image
>polarity, and the zoom onto the area being viewed. So, for me as a 40 year
>Optacon user, the concept was comfortable, familiar and alluring. Suffice
>it to say, even though after about about a half hour's use, I lose track of
>the fact the image is being projected onto my tongue, and for me
>subjectively it sits somewhere in front of my forehead. (grin) Makes me
>want to start a rock group called, "Third eye sighted". (giggle)
>
>Anyhow, it is an Investigational Device, thus the non disclosure, and the
>consequent reality that it isn't and can't be for sale until clinical
>trials
>are completed. For all I know, the device's nature including User
>Interface
>may evolve as a consequence of the Clinical Trials...
>
>Nick
>
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: optacon-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>[mailto:optacon-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
>On Behalf Of Lucrezia Mazzei
>Sent: Sunday, November 04, 2012 4:19 PM
>To: optacon-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: [optacon-l] Re: Optacon Alternatives using current technologies
>and
>funding methodologies
>
>Hello Nick,
>could you describe this device, its use and its cost?
>
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