24-year-old Craig Lundberg lost his sight three years ago after the explosion of the rocket. Today, he became the first soldiers of the Royal Armed Forces, who uses a revolutionary BrainPort system . It represents sunglasses, coupled to the motion sensing camera which captures images and transmits them to the person using the electrode fixed on the tongue.
If the clinical trials of the system are successful, BrainPort It will be widely used to help other blind soldiers, and later civilians. Craig has already tested the system and says it has transformed his life.
" BrainPort - a pair of glasses with a camera - says Lundberg. - By the way, Sunglasses released by Oakley, so they look very stylish. And the camera is connected with my tongue. And that it is not fixed, I can literally try out this picture on the tongue. "
What is meant by the soldiers? For language is attached a special device, resembling a lollipop. It stimulates the tongue, causing it to take the form of images that the camera captures. With this device a person can even find different shades of colors that are displayed by pulsation of varying intensity.
Craig has the feeling as if his tongue were champagne bubbles. These signals are captured by the brain and transformed into an image.
Cost devaysa developed for the Ministry of Defence of the United Kingdom, is 10 thousand pounds.
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