Althouse: "The camera feed is reduced in resolution to a grid of four hundred gray-scale pixels, transmitted to his tongue via a corresponding grid of four hundred tiny electrodes on the lollipop."

May 13, 2017

"The camera feed is reduced in resolution to a grid of four hundred gray-scale pixels, transmitted to his tongue via a corresponding grid of four hundred tiny electrodes on the lollipop."

"Dark pixels provide a strong shock; lighter pixels merely tingle. The resulting vision is a sensation that Weihenmayer describes as 'pictures being painted with tiny bubbles.'

From "Seeing With Your Tongue" in The New Yorker.

4 comments:

traditionalguy said...: Licking LSD? Art as brain fart.; 5/13/17, 8:28 AM
Laslo Spatula said...: ""The camera feed is... transmitted to his tongue via a corresponding grid of four hundred tiny electrodes on the lollipop."

So close.

Like they never thought of using a woman's tongue and four hundred electrodes on a man's erect cock?

Science can be so stupid.

I am Laslo.; 5/13/17, 8:47 AM
mockturtle said...: The New Yorker has been seeing with its asshole for decades.; 5/13/17, 8:53 AM
Michael K said...: I don't read the New Yorker but there was a vision prothesis that was being developed some years ago that used a device worn on the rear scalp with tiny probes that pressed on the scalp to create an image. It sounds similar. I did a quick scan of Pub-Med and don't see anything recent so it may not have worked out. It was providing some protective vision using a small camera, sort of like the little cameras used in the Go Pro body cameras that connected to the prosthesis and a pattern was created by pressing tiny fingers into the scalp. Sort of like Braille but creating an image. After some practice, the patient could "see" an image.; 5/13/17, 12:03 PM