So, we have something new to taste and test.
With best regards,
Amiyo Biswas
Cell: +91-9433464329
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To: "AccessIndia: a list for discussing accessibility and issues
concerningthe disabled." <accessindia@accessindia.org.in>
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Subject: Re: [AI] New device lets blind 'see' via their tongues
So, now that FDA has approved it, let us negotiate with wicab for Indian
market.
Maybe, they can arrange a training and we can experience the device and
decide.
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Sent: Monday, June 22, 2015 3:11 PM
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Subject: [AI] New device lets blind 'see' via their tongues
New device lets blind 'see' via their tongues
PTI | Jun 21, 2015, 06.12 PM IST
A battery-powered device that includes a video camera mounted on a pair of
glasses and a small, flat intra-oral device containing a series of
electrodes
that the user holds against their tongue, can help them see.
(Representative image)
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WASHINGTON: A new device that allows blind people to process visual images
with their tongues can help them identify location, shape and size of
various
objects.
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has allowed marketing of the
BrainPort V100, a battery-powered device that includes a video camera
mounted on
a pair of glasses and a small, flat intra-oral device containing a series
of electrodes that the user holds against their tongue.
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Software converts the image captured by the video camera into electrical
signals that are then sent to the intra-oral device and perceived as
vibrations
or tingling on the user's tongue.
With training and experience, the user learns to interpret the signals to
determine the location, position, size, and shape of objects, and to
determine
if objects are moving or stationary.
"Medical device innovations like this have the potential to help millions
of people," said William Maisel, deputy director for science and chief
scientist
in the FDA's Center for Devices and Radiological Health.
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Clinical data supporting the safety and effectiveness of the BrainPort
V100 included several assessments, such as object recognition and word
identification,
as well as oral health exams to determine risks associated with holding
the intra-oral device in the mouth.
Studies showed that 69 per cent of the 74 subjects who completed one year
of training with the device were successful at the object recognition
test.
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Some patients reported burning, stinging or metallic taste associated with
the intra-oral device. There were no serious device-related adverse
events.
The device has been developed by Wicab, Inc, in Middleton, Wisconsin, and
is expected to cost about $10,000 when it becomes commercially available.
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