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...SENSORY SUBSTITUTION Seeing in Tongues Blind people may one day be able to read computer screens and recognize faces - with their tongues - thanks to a device developed at the University of Strasbourg. The Tactile Vision Substitution System (TVSS), a 3-sq cm pad that rests on the tongue, translates images from a digital camera into electrical stimulation, which forms patterns on the tongue corresponding to the shape of the image. The team wants to implant the tvss in a dental retainer that sends signals to a digital camera mounted on a pair of glasses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tech Watch | 3/26/2001 | See Source »

...process can muddy fragile recollections. "Human memories are very malleable, especially at the height of emotion," she says. "Ask, 'Did he have a moustache?' Well, he does now, because you're implanting that image." Her interviews are long chats about other topics, with only occasional questions related to the pad she holds just out of sight. "The assumption is that this work is about art," says Boylan, "but it's about the complexity of memory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Drawing From Elusive Memory | 3/26/2001 | See Source »

...ever flew aboard the Mir space station, you'd know how important it was to urinate on the barbed wire surrounding the launchpad before you went up. If you were especially thorough, you might want to douse the wheels of the bus that carried you to the pad...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mir's Untold Tales | 3/26/2001 | See Source »

...considering a challenge next year, made sure politicians from small states got the biggest leg up. "There's raw self-interest, contrasted with the grand rhetoric," groused Jim Bopp, an adviser to the bill's chief opponent, Kentucky Senator Mitch McConnell. "Almost everything they've done is to pad their own nest as candidates and protect themselves as incumbent politicians...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Campaign Finance: Debating For Dollars | 3/25/2001 | See Source »

...process can muddy fragile recollections. "Human memories are very malleable, especially at the height of emotion," she says. "Ask, 'Did he have a moustache?' Well, he does now, because you're implanting that image." Her interviews are long chats about other topics, with only occasional questions related to the pad she holds just out of sight. "The assumption is that this work is about art," says Boylan, "but it's about the complexity of memory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Justice: The Sketch Artist: Drawing from Elusive Memory | 3/19/2001 | See Source »

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