This TedEx video has to be one the most exciting potentials of mankind.
How I wish. A whole life experience onto a USB stick. Or even better in the cloud as open source….
Available to all. Only real problem will be to provide context to individual's dimensions…..
Here is the test reproduced at that site
Artist Neil Harbisson was born completely color blind, but these days a device attached to his head turns color into audible frequencies. Instead of seeing a world in gray-scale, Harbisson can hear a symphony of color - and yes, even listen to faces and paintings.
Neil Harbisson's "eyeborg" allows him to hear colors, even those beyond the range of sight. Watch this fascinating lecture he gives where he gives many examples of what one can do with such a sense.
Gordon,
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AMAZING!
Best,
Larry
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ReplyDeleteI am not sure Amazing is enough either. Some more befitting boxes could include, awesome, incredible, remarkable, marvelous, prodigious, unbelievable, and wonderful and many more.
Even so whatever the superlative level, it is much more than that too. The paradigm shift this technology brings is people with limitations can live what most call a normal life.
I can imagine too that this technology can be applied for medical use too. One example could be to simulate as a telepathic diagnosis tool. So be it that is may mean a new value item needs adding to the Hippocrates mantra and it will need some re-interpretation the famous Lukian 4.23 proverb to “Patient Heal thyself”
Practically, thinking, as I look back to when my mother–in law, died 20 years ago this month. Technology like this may have saved her life. Sadly on entering hospital with severe abdominal pains her symptoms were misdiagnosed when Doctors assumed a re-occurrence of a renal failure.
In fact she had a ruptured bowel that went un-repaired till it was too late.
In the meantime the effects of peritonitis did the damage with a torturous death after three days of leaching poison into her body. This also weakened vital muscles so she could not communicate.
At best just whisper was not enough as she desperately tried to tell the medical people they had made a mistake.
It was all too late when they opened her up after three days of agony. I always imagined if she could have sent her thoughts she would have lived.
After the frustration of seeing a loved on die because we could not communicate in the normal way as we know it, I have always searched for an alternative.
Perhaps with this type innovation for practical merging of color image and light to a sonic mode and vice-versa, interpreting brain waves is much nearer.
Larry, thanks for being a mate and as always adding your delightful comments
Cheers
Gordon
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