Seeing Machine Helps Blind See Pictures
From: PCWorld - 01/23/2009
By: Nick Barber

Using her prototype "seeing machine," Elizabeth Goldring can take pictures
and see them -- with her blind eye.  

After more than 20 years of work, Goldring, a senior fellow at MIT's Center
for Advanced Visual Studies and her colleagues have designed a portable
device that allows people with visual impairments to watch videos, access the
internet, view photographs, or just see the face of a friend. 

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Links:
Elizabeth Goldring
http://web.mit.edu/vlb/www/people.html
http://www.webmd.com/eye-health/features/elizabeth-goldring

Beyond the mind's eye
http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2009/camera-blind-0113.html

Video
http://techtv.mit.edu/videos/454-span-classhighlightseeingspan-machine

MIT Tech Talk article
http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2009/techtalk53-13.pdf

An Interview with Elizabeth Goldring
http://www.umkc.edu/bkmk/interviews/goldringe.html

Eye: Poems and Retina Prints
https://www.umkc.edu/bkmk/catalogue/1-886157-37-5-tt.html

Into the light
http://www.boston.com/news/globe/living/articles/2006/07/25/into_the_light/?page=full