[optacon-l] Re: Optacon Alternatives using current technologies and funding methodologies
- From: "H & C Arnold" <4carolyna@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <optacon-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2012 16:35:33 -0500
Fran, you'd better bet I will do everything in my power to get the device
when available. I'm 75, in good shape and ready to go for it, even in
several years!
DOG - Depend on God,
Carolyn
----- Original Message -----
From: "Fran" <fran.italy@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <optacon-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, November 05, 2012 4:25 PM
Subject: [optacon-l] Re: Optacon Alternatives using current technologies and
funding methodologies
Hi Carolyn,
as I understand it, the optic nerve is bypassed by this kind of device! So
why not try when it becomes available?
I still hope to have sight restored through gene therapy, as my retinas are
supposed to be still healthy but the photoreceptors don't work properly.
Anyway, if this device can give me some additional freedom, it is more than
welcome!!
----- Original Message -----
From: "H & C Arnold" <4carolyna@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <optacon-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, November 05, 2012 10:09 PM
Subject: [optacon-l] Re: Optacon Alternatives using current technologies and
funding methodologies
> Nick, I am utterly astounded by your story and devastated that you can't
> continue with the device. After last night's back and forth, I realized
> that
> with undeveloped optic nerve, I probably could not qualify, but I was so
> hopeful for you and had no idea you'd have to give it up. I'm afraid I'd
> be
> giving them a bad time about that one, if I had the opportunity for a
> device
> that gave me any vision at all. I did have partial vision as a child, and
> anything is better than nothing, I can say from experience.
>
> DOG - Depend on God,
>
> Carolyn
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Nick Dotson" <nickdotson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <optacon-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Sunday, November 04, 2012 10:58 PM
> Subject: [optacon-l] Re: Optacon Alternatives using current technologies
> and
> funding methodologies
>
>
> We guinea pigs get to use it for a year. Mine ends in March.
>
> 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
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: optacon-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:optacon-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> On Behalf Of H & C Arnold
> Sent: Sunday, November 04, 2012 8:27 PM
> To: optacon-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [optacon-l] Re: Optacon Alternatives using current technologies
> and
> funding methodologies
>
> 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
>
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