{"id":10257,"date":"2010-03-25T13:43:44","date_gmt":"2010-03-25T19:43:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/?p=10257"},"modified":"2010-03-25T11:13:42","modified_gmt":"2010-03-25T17:13:42","slug":"scientists-help-blind-man-see-with-tongue-cunning-linguist-joke-gets-extra-level","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/2010\/03\/scientists-help-blind-man-see-with-tongue-cunning-linguist-joke-gets-extra-level\/","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Help Blind Man See with Tongue, Cunning Linguist Joke Gets Extra Level"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\"> <object width=\"480\" height=\"295\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/RaTzQVHi-C4&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;color1=0xe1600f&#038;color2=0xfebd01\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/RaTzQVHi-C4&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;color1=0xe1600f&#038;color2=0xfebd01\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"480\" height=\"295\"><\/embed><\/object><\/div>\n<blockquote><p>Lance Corporal Craig Lundberg, 24, can read words, make out shapes and walk without assistance thanks to a device developed in the United States which could revolutionize life for other blind people.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.discovery.com\/tech\/blind-soldier-sees-with-tongue.html\" class=\"external external_icon\">It converts images into electrical pulses which are sent to the tongue, where they cause a tingling sensation.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The different strength of the tingles can be interpreted so the user can mentally visualise their surroundings and navigate around objects.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"> <\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/news.discovery.com\/tech\/blind-soldier-sees-with-tongue.html\" class=\"external external_icon\">discovery<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lance Corporal Craig Lundberg, 24, can read words, make out shapes and walk without assistance thanks to a device developed in the United States which could revolutionize life for other blind people. [&#8230;] It converts images into electrical pulses which are sent to the tongue, where they cause a tingling sensation. The different strength of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,8,1818],"tags":[2044,1087,1722,1061,4958],"class_list":["post-10257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science","category-technology","category-war","tag-blind","tag-live-for-science-die-for-science","tag-science-it-works-bitches","tag-soldier","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10257"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10259,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10257\/revisions\/10259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}