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Friday, March 19, 2010

BrainPort Provides Blind With Basic Visual Input via the Tongue

BrainPort Helps Blinded Soldier See With Tongue 03/19/2010.  A British soldier who was blinded by a grenade in Iraq three years ago said his life has been transformed since he was fitted with a prototype BrainPort device that allows him to "see" with his tongue. 24-year old Lance Corporal Craig Lundberg from Walton in Liverpool, UK, told BBC News on Monday that while the device is only a prototype, it has a lot of potential to advance things for blind people: "the potential to change my life is massive," he said. Medical News Today

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