Feeling Sounds, Hearing Sights
From: Communications of the ACM - 01/2018 - pages 15 to 17
By Gregory Mone

A new wave of sensory substitution devices work to assist people who are
blind or deaf.

Sensory substitution devices come in a variety of forms. The Brain-Port, for
example, translates visual information from a forehead-mounted camera into
tactile feedback, delivering stimuli through 400 electrodes on a
thumbprint-sized pad that users place on their tongue. Other aids include the
vOICe, which translates camera scans of an environment into audible
soundwaves, allowing users to hear obstacles they cannot see.

Neuroscientist David Eagleman and his colleagues at Neosensory, a Silicon
Valley startup, are developing a new device, the Buzz, that translates
ambient sounds such as sirens or smoke alarms into distinct patterns of
vibrations that pulse through and across the device's eight motors.

Read the entire article and view a video (9:33) at:
https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2018/1/223884-feeling-sounds-hearing-sights/fulltext

Links:
BrainPort
https://www.wicab.com

vOICe
https://www.seeingwithsound.com

Neosensory
http://neosensory.com

Meet the Woman Who Can See with Her Ears
https://www.wired.com/2017/03/book-excerpt-body-builders

Pivothead
http://www.pivothead.com