Jose Neto walks with BrainPort

Blind Calgarian Jose Neto had a taste of independence again on Monday as his testing with the BrainPort visual device continued in Pittsburgh, PA. For the past week, Neto has been working with the device which creates a stimulus on the tongue to help the visually impared get a sense of their environment and objects in their surroundings. Neto continued his training by taking the device into sun to navigate through the Blind and Vision Rehabilitation Services of Pittsburgh parking lot.

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Great video! It is good to see multiple options become available to blind people. Different blind people have different needs, abilities and preferences. I hope that before long there will also come independent professional benchmarking against alternative sensory substitution technologies for the blind, such as The vOICe ("seeing with your ears") and the FSRS ("seeing with your forehead", from Japan). Some of these technologies are already globally available, and much cheaper.

Thanks