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A bunch of blogs by Chris "Gonz Blinko" Hofstader and his friends and their dogs.

I can see but cannot drive, what good is synthetic vision?

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Foreword By Chris Hofstader This article is a guest post written by my friend Pranav Lal. He is an expert user of The vOICe, a sensory substitution technology that allows blind people to experience some vision via sounds. I find this technology highly compelling, I think it's a better solution than are the various implants… Read more about I can see but cannot drive, what good is synthetic vision?

Gonz Blinko’s Blind News Digest – Edition 21

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Editorial By Chris Hofstader This is the twenty first edition of Gonz Blinko's Blind News Digest and, as always, it contains articles about blindness and blind people from all over the world. This digest functions as a single source to find nearly every story written in English and published online in any given week. This… Read more about Gonz Blinko’s Blind News Digest – Edition 21

Gonz Blinko’s Blind News Digest – Edition 20

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Editorial By Chris Hofstader I'm proud to say that this is Edition 20 of Gonz Blinko's Blind News Digest – that's nearly five months of bringing our readers over 1000 articles from mainstream publications from all over the world about blindness. As editor, I try to include as many articles as possible. I try to… Read more about Gonz Blinko’s Blind News Digest – Edition 20