Blind Can 'Hear' Colors and Shapes
From: Medical Design Technology - 03/10/2014

What if you could "hear" colors? Or shapes? These features are normally
perceived visually, but using sensory substitution devices (SSDs) they can
now be conveyed to the brain noninvasively through other senses.

At the Center for Human Perception and Cognition, headed by Prof. Amir Amedi
of the Edmond and Lily Safra Center for Brain Sciences and the Institute for
Medical Research Israel-Canada at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem Faculty
of Medicine, the blind and visually impaired are being offered tools, via
training with SSDs, to receive environmental visual information and interact
with it in ways otherwise unimaginable. The work of Prof. Amedi and his
colleagues is patented by Yissum, the Hebrew University's Technology Transfer
Company.

Read the entire article and view a video (1:35) at:
http://www.mdtmag.com/news/2014/03/blind-can-hear-colors-and-shapes

Links:
EyeMusic SSD (on iTunes)
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/eyemusic-hearing-colored-shapes/id805461054

Amir Amedi
http://brain.huji.ac.il/amir_amedi.asp

Amir Amedi's Lab for Multisensory Research
http://brain.huji.ac.il/

Sensory Substitution Devices 
http://brain.huji.ac.il/projects.asp