"A team of researchers have built a vision implant with tiny electrodes the size of a neuron, seeking to help blind people see again."
The Next Web reports: "Initial tests in mice showed that the implant can effectively stimulate visual perception using only a small amount of electricity."
What is the best way to offer you text-to-speech in my video game? Should I build it in myself? Or should I somehow make the text available to external screen reading plugins you already have installed?
What is the best way to enable text-to-speech? I'm trying to imagine how a blind person would find the toggle in a settings menu they can't see. The only way I can think of around that would be to enable it by default and have an option for users who don't want it to disable it at the beginning, but that sounds cumbersome. Is there a better middle option? Is there a commonly-used keyboard shortcut I can enable or something?
The screenshot below features Patrick Lichtsteiner and his work on mimicking retinal circuits in the design of the dynamic vision sensor (DVS), an event-based camera where the log difference of light intensity at time t and t-1 is emitted (the event), rather than a typical camera frame. This has extraordinary implications for visual processing, data transfer bandwidth and data storage.
"Conceit is epilepsy and eyesight is a lying sense."
— #Heraclitus (dubious) fragment 46
"All humans by nature desire to know. An indication of this is our liking for the perceptual capacities. For even apart from their utility, these are liked because of themselves — and most of all the one because of the eyes."
— #Aristotle, (dubious) #Metaphysics, 980a21
"With millions of people flocking to big cities and small towns to witness Monday's eclipse, hospitals are on high alert for increased traffic accidents, the potential for mass casualty events and, of course, eye damage.
Eclipse fervor will especially strain understaffed health care systems in rural towns that may not have dealt with an event of this scale."
Hello fediverse, lil cry for help: I’m looking to speak to someone with vitelliform macular dystrophy caused vision loss, so I can ask about their experience with the onset of symptoms. I was diagnosed ~3 years ago and until recently hadn’t experienced symptoms, I believe I now am but would love to chat to others about their experiences. Compulsory masto disclaimer: I’m not looking for advice other than the specific ask above, thank you. Boosts much appreciated 💖
Street parking was already scarce in #Hoboken, New Jersey, when the death of an elderly pedestrian spurred city leaders to remove even more spaces in a bid to 👍end traffic fatalities.👍
For seven years now, the city of nearly 60,000 people has reported resounding success:
♦️Not a single automobile occupant, bicyclist or pedestrian has died in a traffic crash since January 2017♦️, elevating Hoboken as a national model for roadway safety.
Mayor Ravi Bhalla was a City Council member in 2015 when a van struck 89-year-old Agnes Accera as she crossed Washington Street in the bustling downtown business district. Bhalla didn’t know Accera but attended her wake and said her death inspired him to push for better safety.
“I felt it wasn’t acceptable,” Bhalla said. “Our seniors, who we owe the greatest duty of safety to, should be able to pass that street as safely as possible. For her to actually be killed was a trigger that we needed to take action.”
Bhalla became mayor in 2018 and the city fully committed to #Vision#Zero: 🔸a set of guidelines adopted by numerous cities, states and nations seeking to eliminate traffic deaths. 🔸
👉Proponents believe no accident is truly unavoidable and even want to do away with the word “accident” altogether when describing roadway fatalities. #Sweden originated the concept more than a quarter-century ago, and U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete #Buttigieg touted Hoboken in 2022 when announcing his department would follow Vision Zero guidelines.
Major U.S. cities including #NewYork, #Minneapolis, #SanFrancisco, #Baltimore and #Portland, Oregon, have integrated aspects of the program into their safety plans,
including at least some form of #daylighting, the term for the removal of parking spaces near intersections to improve visibility. #VisionZero#CarSafety https://apnews.com/article/hoboken-zero-traffic-deaths-daylighting-pedestrian-safety-007dec67706c1c09129da1436a3d9762
Hilferuf aus der Münchner #Fahrradbubble: Lindwurmstraße für alle! Als Aktion ist morgen (!!!!), Donnerstag 15.2.
Lindwurmstraße - Verbandfahren von der Sendlinger Kirche zum Sendlinger Tor spontan geplant. Start um 18 Uhr. Bitte kommt zahlreich um die tolle Planung für die Lindwurmstraße zu retten!!!! 🚴🏼♀️🚴🏼♀️🚴🏼♀️🚴🚴🚴
Periodic reminder that lots of people can't read stuff highlighted in bright yellow, so if you cover your Most Important Information That You Definitely Need Everyone To Read in bright yellow, you are shooting yourself in the foot.
It has been developed as part of "A Touch of the Universe", a non-profit project for a tactile astronomy kit addressed to children with vision impairments.
The other day I saw a post by someone recommending getting prescription glasses from a Chinese site, Vooglam.
My prescription is exorbitantly expensive in the US. And if I don't want to be wearing the equivalent of coke bottles on my eyes the progressive bifocal and polycarbonate lenses are a must, which adds up even more. Add in the photo-gray or brown and you get near a thousand dollars out of pocket for glasses from one of the US monopolies.
I had found a site that had a limited range of frames and wasn't in the monopoly so I could get glasses for between $200-300. On the Chinese site I got them for $128. The frame selection was mostly hideous to an old woman like myself but I did find a pair I liked well enough. I paid for the cheapest shipping too, so it will be a month before I get them. But at about 15% of what they'd cost at Lenscrafters, it's worth the wait.
I find it obscene that people that need glasses the most because of really poor vision can't affordably access them without all kinds of internet gymnastics.
I fucking hate #capitalism with every fiber of my being.
I dunno about you but I’m not interested in the #Apple#Vision until there’s a mod for the Apple video conference avatars that gives everyone big floppy dick nipples.
Our favorite animals are deer 💛 ~ Nazaré, Portugal 🇵🇹 The name of this town and the presence of deer is not coincidental! In the second photo, the deer ducked its head before I had time to focus and take the picture. 😅
I am doing a public outreach event today. Somehow the swag shipment didn’t get mailed, so I was told to raid the old education office to see what we have.