Seeing with the tongue

Neuroscientists in Montreal, Denmark, and the US have developed a Braille-like tongue display of 144 pixels, that stimulates the visual areas of the brain through the tongue. Interesting, but can you talk and read at the same time? It may be impractical now, but it’s an interesting approach to the problem of providing vision replacement or augmentation through technology.

More details can be found at this link.

Thanks to Howard Rheingold’s Smart mobs blog for the links.