Noted: “What was a surprise was when the congenitally blind people were capable, just operating with 400 pressure points on the back, they could recognize human faces. There was big noise about this in the beginning of the ?70s. Hundreds of publications around the globe wrote about Paul Bachy-Rita and his device, about how people can see from skin. That was great proof and great success,” says Yuri Danilov from the University of Wisconsin?s Tactile Communication and Neurorehabilitation Lab.
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