IEEE Spectrum comes out with a list of winners and losers in newly developed technology. When I was looking at the list, this "Tongue Vision" caught my attention because it looks like one of the biggest loosers and it is extremely wacky and unpractical. You have a camera strapped to your shoulder, a flat box hanging on your chest and you have your lips around a cord that connects to the box and camera. Your tongue vibrates every time the camera detects a shape in the form of a circle. The round object in front of you could be a tennis ball 1 foot in front of you, or it could be a hot air balloon a kilometer away. (Information Taken from IEEE Spectrum Online)
This new technology seems to offer very little benefits to the user making the user look absolutely ridiculous. It is not precise at all and can only detect certain shapes, and so what if there is a round object in front of you... your tongue vibrates, couldn't you just use a blind walking stick and feel what the actual shape and size of the round object is? This new invention costs around $5,000 and is one of the wackiest and useless devices I have ever seen.
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