Projects: Tactile vision substitution system (TVSS)
Based on the work by the late Paul Bach-y-Rita and colleagues at the Smith-Kettlewell Institute of Visual Sciences in the 1960s. The definitive work on this work remains the book: P. Bach-y-Rita, Brain Mechanisms in Sensory Substitution. New York: Academic, 1972. Appearing below is an artist's rendering of that historic system.