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Blind Soldier Uses Tongue To "See"

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the in-the-future-we'll-all-be-robots dept.

Zen found this story about a blind soldier using a lollypop-sized tongue sensor to 'see.' The system actually enables him to walk and read unaided. The guy says, "It feels like licking a nine-volt battery or like popping candy. The camera sends signals down onto the lollypop and onto your tongue, you can then determine what they mean and transfer it to shapes."

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  1. Re:In the land of the Blind,... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Fuck this niggershit of putting half a sentence in the subject line. IT'S FOR NIGGERS. Quit doing it.

  2. Re:This was done a few years ago by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    oh look a stupid internet cunt who's probably not even a real marine but a dumb shit who jacks off to xena porn and his mom's underwear. stupid shit