not as fashionable as a banana clip... but to think I was impressed with my dentist's magnifying goggles...
NASA - A Second Set of Eyes
JORDY's name was inspired by Geordi La Forge, a character on the television series Star Trek: The Next Generation. Geordi, who was blind, used special glasses that enabled him to see.
The technology improves on the Low Vision Enhancement System (LVES), a video headset developed through a joint research project between NASA's Stennis Space Center in Mississippi, Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, and the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. Worn like a pair of goggles, the LVES (pronounced "Elvis") contained two eye-level cameras, one with an unmagnified wide-angle view and one with magnification capability. This system manipulated the camera images to compensate for a person's low vision limitations.
The LVES was only commercially available for a short time. But its potential inspired Enhanced Vision Systems of Huntington Beach, Calif., to pursue developing JORDY in an effort to bring a new and improved low-vision headset to the market.
Comment Avatar icons by Gravatar.
E-mail addresses are required, but not displayed nor shared.
Please post comments relevant to this page only. For off-topic comments, questions, and discussion, please use this site's Message Board Forum. All comments posted that are spam, abusive, use phoney e-mail, or that do not relate directly to the page, will be removed.
Thank you for respecting this site, author & readers, and for helping stem the flow of ridiculously inaccurate hits from search engines.
superficiality >>If the facade is what's important to you, all you wind up with is an illusion. Disillusionment is the gift of substance.
-- Chloe<<
(more)
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage - to move in the opposite direction.
