Device Helps the Blind See with Their Ears
From: Product Design & Development - 07/08/2013
By: Gozde Zorlu

A device that trains the brain to turn sounds into images could be used as an
alternative to invasive treatment for blind and partially-sighted people,
researchers at the University of Bath have found.

The vOICe sensory substitution device is a revolutionary tool that helps
blind people to use sounds to build an image in their minds of the things
around them.

Read the entire article at:
http://www.pddnet.com/news/2013/07/device-helps-blind-see-their-ears

Links:
The Pulse: Achieving Sight through Sound (with video 3:01)
http://www.mdtmag.com/videos/2013/07/pulse-achieving-sight-through-sound

How well do you see what you hear? The acuity of visual-to-auditory sensory substitution
http://www.frontiersin.org/cognitive_science/10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00330/abstract

Michael Proulx
http://www.bath.ac.uk/psychology/staff/michael-proulx/

Related:
Activating the 'Mind's Eye'
http://www.pddnet.com/news/2012/11/activating-minds-eye

Device Converts Images into Music to Help Blind
http://www.pddnet.com/news/2012/07/device-converts-images-music-help-blind

Synesthesia Benefitting the Blind
http://www.pddnet.com/videos/2010/08/synesthesia-benefitting-blind