Activating the 'Mind's Eye': Alternative Vision Using Sounds
From: Science Daily - 11/07/2012

Scientists at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and in France have shown
that blind people - using specialized photographic and sound equipment - can
actually "see" and describe objects and even identify letters and words. 

Read the entire article at:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/11/121107122556.htm

Links:
Amir Amedi's Lab
http://brain.huji.ac.il/

Teaching the Blind to Read and Recognize Objects with Sounds
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/11/121107122741.htm

Reading with Sounds: Sensory Substitution Selectively Activates the Visual
  Word Form Area in the Blind 
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0896627312007635

Related:
Sonar Vision System for Congenitally Blind
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/11/121127130148.htm

Sound Rather Than Sight Can Activate 'Seeing' for the Blind, Say Researchers
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/02/120208145955.htm

'I Can Hear a Building over There': Blind Echolocation Experts Use 'Visual'
  Part of Their Brain to Process the Clicks and Echoes 
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/05/110525181420.htm

Some Blind People 'See' with Their Ears, Neuropsychologists Show
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110316104123.htm

People Blind from Birth Use Visual Brain Area to Improve Other Senses: Can
  Hear and Feel with Greater Acuity 
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/10/101006131203.htm

Touch Helps Make the Connection between Sight and Hearing
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090318112937.htm

Blindsight: How Brain Sees What You Do Not See
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/10/081014204444.htm