Rewiring the senses - seeing with the tongue (cure for the blind)

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It's pretty hard to surprise me when it comes to discoveries in science, but this one really got me.

Basically, take a video camera and connect the output to your tongue... that's it (well, not really, but it's the basic idea). It lets blind people see, and even people who can see can close their eyes and try it. I about it on the World's Technology Podcast.

Some links:

The Dec 2006 podcast I heard (it's at the end of the show)

http://www.theworld.org/pod/tech/podcast130.mp3

http://abcnews.go.com/Primetime/stor...551&page=1

http://discovermagazine.com/2003/jun/feattongue

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OKd56D2mvN0



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If / when this gets off the ground on a large scale, this will change lives in a big way.

Stuff of science fiction.

Not sure if this is enough for a thread, as it's basically just an info blurb, but I found it really interesting and it obv. has big potential impacts.