Hello Martin This sounds a bit cranky to me. The iGlasses, (Not Eye Glasses), just vibrate against the skin. They use an ultrasonic sensor to transmit a signal and another to receive it. Then it just detects reflections.
Must run! Lynne On 29 Jun 2012, at 19:47, Martin McCormick <[email protected]> wrote: Hello Gordon and Sarah, It is a slow Friday afternoon at work so I just had to look this up on Google. I'll be darned but this thing exists and I can see how eye glasses and one's tongue got in to the discussion. The "Brain Port" is an experimental device that supposedly projects an image on to your tongue. There is an stimulator about the size of a postage stamp that contains a matrix of electrodes that rests on your tongue. A camera produces the image and sends it to the stimulators so people who are blind can feel the image on their tongues. The url is http://vision.wicab.com/technology/&sa=U&ei=LvLtT9SRMoPq8wSN9YGJAg&ved=0CBkQFjAA&usg=AFQjCNEu0iUpTot kRDHBEuMp66347fdkLw On their web site, they say it is like painting pictures on your tongue with champaign bubbles. Now that is some serious marketing talk. I think I will pass on this opportunity. Martin Gordon Smith writes: > hi Sarah > > I can't deny you made me laugh. Since when did one put "Glasses" in your > mouth? :) > > No, you wear them like somebody with vision would ware spectacles. They > work via a couple of ultrasonic sensors so they're not as sophisticated > as possibly some other devices in the pipeline may be. > > Gordon ======================================= The Techno-Chat E-Mail forum is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free To modify your subscription options, please visit for forum's dedicated web pages located at http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/techno-chat You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Techno-Chat group at either of the following websites: http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/techno-chat/index.html Or: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]> you may also subscribe to this list via RSS. The feed is at: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml> --------------------------------------- ======================================= The Techno-Chat E-Mail forum is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free To modify your subscription options, please visit for forum's dedicated web pages located at http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/techno-chat You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Techno-Chat group at either of the following websites: http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/techno-chat/index.html Or: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]> you may also subscribe to this list via RSS. The feed is at: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml> ---------------------------------------
