[optacon-l] Re: brain port
- From: "Lucrezia Mazzei" <lucrezim@xxxxxx>
- To: <optacon-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2012 10:35:54 +0100
Hello Nick,
does this device allow you to read a page of a book or to look at a picture?
Cheers, Lucrezia
----- Original Message -----
From: "Nick Dotson" <nickdotson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <optacon-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, November 05, 2012 12:49 AM
Subject: [optacon-l] Re: brain port
> First, I don't currently know if they're looking for participants in
> another trial, or when that would be. Next, you've got to have one of the
> facilities with a lab to do the training and evaluations which are part of
> the trial within a realistic transportation range. And yes, as I said,
> I'm congenitally blind, in fact, blind at birth from R.O.P. if you're
> politically correct, or R.L.F. if you're wanting to understand the
> pathology. (grin)
>
> I'm am one of the first groups of congenitally blind to be tested with the
> device, and answering the long held skepticism about the ability of
> congenitally blind person's ability to profit from some sort of prosthetic
> analog to a functional visual system was part of what they are trying to
> find out for themselves as well as answering the concerns of the F.D.A.
> I've learned that the brain's ability to interpolate data is more plastic
> than I suspected.
>
> Certainly, the evolution of such technologies and their User Interfaces
> and training techniques will redefine the definitions of the nature of
> blindness we blind and sighted folks will have. It seems to me, such
> non-invasive technologies will be less problematic, less expensive, and
> less difficult to upgrade than implant-oriented solutions.
>
> Nick
>
>
>
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> Sent: Sunday, November 04, 2012 4:12 PM
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> Subject: [optacon-l] Re: brain port
>
> Nick, thanks for sharing, that is fantastic news!
> I have never heard of it! Do you know if there's an age limit to try this?
> Also, were you totally blind before trying this device??
>
> Thanks
>
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