When I first saw the above title today, I thought it had something to do with a former owner who had an Egyptian fetish. When I read the story, I discovered that I was mistaken: he’d bought a “flat” (apartment? condominium? something like that), sight-unseen, and when he arrived to look over his new property, [...]
Archive of entries posted on 16th May 2007
Technology-Induced Synaesthesia
Boing Boing has a fascinating entry on technology-induced synaesthesia today. Human vision, and visual interpretation of non-visual data, has always fascinated me. This goes one step further, because it mentions using this sort of thing to overcome physical sensory defects (such as inner-ear problems affecting balance).