Scientists are teaching computers how to become Deaf-Blind

Background Info: How do Deaf-Blind communicate?

• Adapted Signs
• a Deaf-Blind person watches her interpreter about five (5) feet from each other
• Tactile Sign Language / Fingerspelling
• The Deaf-Blind person puts his or her hands over the signer's hands to feel the shape, movement and location of the signs.
• Tracking
• Some Deaf-Blind people with restricted, but still usable vision, hold the signer's arms to help them follow the signs more easily.
• Tadoma
• Deaf-Blind people put their thumb on the other person's chin and their fingers on the other person's cheek to feel the vibrations and the movements of their lips.

After my previous post about computers using its own cameras to read and understand us, it made me quite curious to see what else are the scientists doing? I found something that seems plausible and much more likely to happen in our lifetime... 

"Muscle-Based PC (Computer) Interface"

Basically, what the scientists are doing, is they would attach bunch of wires onto your upper forearms. On the end of each wire, is an attached electromyography (EMG) sensors that can sense movement. Therefore, when you move your fingers, the EMG sensors will feel it, send electricity to the computer, and the computer will do whatever it is supposed to do. 




The scientists are looking for "better-integrated ways to interact with the machines in our lives." Do you have any other ideas of how this can improve our everyday lives? Post it up! We all want to hear your opinions!