Hi, I got to try one of the lollipop devices a number of years back when it was purely a research toy. With a little practice, I could "see" a Coke can on a table, roll a ball back and forth across a table and find door frames while walking down a hall.
To those of us who had great vision in the past, it didn't meet our expectations based on our youth but, compared to the nothingness that RP has brought me, it was all beautiful. I remember the electric tingling being noticeable but, after a little while, not bad enough to cause any discomfort. It sounds like this new device lowers the amperage even further which, if it works as well as the research one I tried years back, it will be an enormous step forward. cdh On Sep 1, 2009, at 7:57 AM, Yuma Antoine Decaux wrote: > > I believe that the current would be so minute as to not have any long > term consequence to the nerve endings. When you consider energy in > it's many forms, heat is one. And the nerves are being stimulated > through the epidermic coat. Furthermore, they are currently getting > approval from the fcc about this synthetic vusion device called > brainport, which is a dime piece sized lolly one places on the tongue > to induce stimulation coming from what a digital camera sees. In > comparison, the tongue's nerve endings are infinately more sensitive > than those of the fingers. The sensations evoked by the test subjects > *this project has been going on for quite some time now, thus the > confidence of submitting the device for approval from the inventors* > is like champagne bubbles on the tongue. > > I think we're talking milli ampers here, not quite the tickles we can > get from touching static lectricity. > > But this is only my opinion, though educated from researching > available papers on google scholar and such pertinent articles. > > best > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
