Nguyen: Blind people can learn to see through their tongues
Christopher Nguyen · The Path to A.I. Augmented Human Intelligence // Christopher Nguyen, Arimo [FirstMark's Data Driven] · Jun 16, 2016 · at 16:06
Christopher Nguyen, Co-founder and CEO of Arimo, discusses sensory substitution devices that translate video into tongue electrical impulses.
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“And after six or eight weeks of training, blind people can learn to quote, unquote, see through their tongue, because the brain learns to detect those signals.”
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