Seeing with the Ears. Hands and Bionic Eyes: Amir Amedi at TEDxJerusalem

Prof. Dr. Amir Amedi uses music and sounds to make blind people 'see' their environment. He uses non-invasive sensory substitution devices and invasive bionic eye procedures to teach blind people to see. He is an award winning brain
scientist that suggest new ways to look at brain organization and brain flexibility. His work with blind and normal sighTED individuals suggests that the brain is actually a flexible sensory independent task machine, rather than a pure sensory machine, the current dogma in brain research.
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[@imictfh]

incredible stuff ... the future of sensory branding .. right here

[@splashcat100]

This device is transformative but the sound needs adjustment. So much white noise in the background would drive me crazy. Should be relatively easy to choose from sounds, though.

[@BloodnutXcom]

The heat sensing can help the blind know if the kettle is boiling or the stove is hot - no need to be James Bond to quickly find everyday uses for this.

[@amosref1]

In my mind this was the top talk :)

[@stompdirtyyard]

amazing ! inspring

[@KrishnadasBharatikb]

There is much research going on in these fields. Attempts to make the being 'see', to make the deaf 'hear' etc. All these seem to be a sincere attempt at one level, to bring a certain 'relief' for the patient. While structural modifications are the scope of this 'research' to bring them back to form and function accordingly, please note that the modifications does not 'include' a completely radical approach. The inclusion could be a new sense perception available for the few who could have access to it which may be beyond the sense perceptions which excites a sense of the wonderful experience, ecstasy, infinite joy like never before, which some term it as the divine ecstasy.

[@BenitoCodina]

For an adventitiously blind this process may require a high demand of cognitive effort that become the resource in a non functional one.
In other side, outdoors, we have a lot of masking sounds that will requiere a high cognitive and perceptive ability to discriminate that one we are interested in.

[@tuuZhao]

Now we can enrich our senses by carry around devices that assess environment and transform it into the senses that we possess!
Wait. To some extend, we already had! Smartphones O.O

[@RichardTaylor-hu4jx]

If you are interested in bionics, take a look at this bio-inspired approach based on fractal patterns: @​

[@n0sfreak]

Fire your sound editor!!

[@manishkhare8748]

Is it possible that:... suppose there are two mirrors at an angle which makes the images superimpose over one another and finally leaving one image only(location of images being derived from basic principals of optics), but our mind makes us see two images... is it possible that, as we know the number of mirrors is two, so we start perceiving two images... and this perception makes us see two images. is such a perception possible with a mind ??

[@shacharMaidenbaum]

for more information on these projects visit the amedi lab website at brain.huji.ac.il

[@benperlmutter5190]

crackhead editor

[@BloodnutXcom]

Oh please. take your political crap to another channel, this is about science.

[@WillFaustCuber]

Lol it’s been 6 years this project must be dead