ECHOLOCATION

Using Neural Networks & Neural re-wiring to help the visually challenged to see

Brain experiments

While trying to figure out the origins of NN algorithms I came across something very interesting on the Coursera Machine learning class by the amazing ANDREW Ng.

So apparently Neural scientists cut the "wire" from the ear to the auditory cortex and rerouted the the one from the eye (relax it's an animal's brain..maybe a cute puppies..hope you feel better now..:-p ).

The Auditory cortex basically LEARNS to see now.The animal is able to visually discriminate objects with that piece of brain tissue.Plugging almost any sensor to any part of the brain will make the brain adapt to it.

In echolocation the subject clicks his tongue or snaps his fingers to understand the surroundings around him.
(A true BAT-man indeed) 

If you want a dose of inspiration look at the video of this amazing kid with no eye balls but skates like pro.

I wonder why this not a reality yet.After I did some digging around I came across the video below.Daniel says that the national federation of the blind is too confined to its traditional approaches and deems this method a bit complex.Wish this becomes a reality soon.