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This Handheld Device Allows Blind People to Experience the Solar Eclipse With Their Ears. The technology, which translates the intensity of sunlight into a range of sounds, was designed to make eclipses more accessible to visually impaired people.
The technology, which translates the intensity of sunlight into a range of sounds, was designed to make eclipses more accessible to visually impaired people
But others will put on headphones: Researchers at Harvard University have developed a small device that will also allow blind or visually impaired people to experience the eclipse by listening. The LightSound device “will actually give me more information than what I can possibly see with my eyeballs,” Yuki Hatch, a Texas high school student and astronomy enthusiast who is visually impaired, says to the New York Times ’ Robyn Ross. “That’s been heartwarming to me—just the amount of work that people have given to this project and the excitement around it,” Allyson Bieryla, a Harvard University astronomer and part of the LightSound team, tells the New York Times.
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