Aug 11 1995
From The Space Library
Space News for this day. (1MB PDF)
About 100 legally blind people are now seeing normally due to a product of NASA's Technology Transfer Program. The Low Vision Enhancement System (LVES), known as "Elvis" to its users, is worn on the head covering both eyes. Three frontal cameras send signals to a box where the images are processed for increased contrast. A black and white projector mounted over each ear feeds the images through optics which account for the user's eyeglass prescription. The headset and the hand-held control weigh about two pounds each. (NASA Release 95-136; LA Times, Jun 28/95)
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