US Military researchers are conducting experiments that connect a “Brainport” (a device that gives Army Rangers 360-degree unobstructed vision at night and allow Navy SEALs to sense sonar in their heads while maintaining normal vision underwater) to the human wearer’s… tongue.
From Netscape News:
A narrow strip of red plastic connects the Brain Port to the tongue where 144 microelectrodes transmit information through nerve fibers to the brain. Instead of holding and looking at compasses and bluky-hand-held sonar devices, the divers can processes the information through their tongues, said Dr. Anil Raj, the project’s lead scientist at the Florida Institute for Human and Machine Cognition.
References: Netscape News, Florida Institute for Human and Machine Cognition
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