After speaking to Mike Blow on Monday he suggested I look into sensory substitution; continuing with the idea of augmenting and improving the human body.
I am also interested in the idea of using new technology to help the disabled so this subject seemed to be an appropriate progression of my research.
“Sensory substitution means replacement of one sensory input (vision, hearing, touch, taste or smell) by another, while preserving some of the key functions of the original sense.”
From - http://www.seeingwithsound.com/sensub.htm
This means, for example, using a camera to map your environment and then transferring this image to a set of vibrating pins or sensors to map the image onto your skin. After a while, this sensation will be able to be read buy your brain as an image. The same can be done with images transformed into sound waves.
I also found a term paper written by Mike on this subject, which you can read here
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