Category Archives: neuroscience

Andy Miah speaks at our Research Colloquium (November 22)

Posted on November 10, 2010 by designabilities

On November 22 (Monday), Andy Miah gives a talk at our T-Labs’ Research Colloquium. Don’t hesitate to spread to spread the word and feel free to join! *** Research Colloquium *** Date: 22.11.2010 Time: 14.00 – 15:30 Location: Deutsche Telekom … Continue reading →

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Zwischen Mensch und Maschine – Vom Glück und Unglück des Homo Faber

Posted on November 10, 2010 by designabilities

„Technisierungsprozesse sind dann problematisch …, wenn sie die Offenheit des Menschen nicht mehr befördern, sondern unterlaufen. Dies ist etwa dann der Fall, wenn die neurotechnologische Option als einzige Selbstentfaltungsmöglichkeit gesehen wird.“ Mit dem Buch “Zwischen Mensch und Maschine…” beschert des Philosophen … Continue reading →

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Human Augmentation

Posted on April 6, 2010 by designabilities

John hockenberry and Hugh Herr at MIT world on human restauration and augmentation… watch the full clip here!

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Seeing with Sound

Posted on September 18, 2009 by designabilities

A computer based camera tracking system, that converts images into sound…

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Bionic Vision

Posted on September 18, 2009 by designabilities

Blind woman, who now calls herself the “robo-chick”, has a lot of cables connected to her body and is able to “see” with her brain…

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Plugged In: Hearing, With Help (US documentary)

Posted on September 18, 2009 by designabilities

Us-Documentary oabout hearing implants:

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Tom Shakespeare on arguments

Posted on September 1, 2009 by designabilities

Bioethicist Tom Shakespeare talks about why reason doesn’t tell a good story: Shakespeare underlines that people think in stories, narratives or images, rather than in statistics. Found on newscientist

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Blind learn to see with tongue

Posted on August 10, 2009 by designabilities

Remember the game from the childhood, where you would drew pictures on somebody’s back, who then had to guess what it was? This one here is quite similar…

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Deep brain stimulation – Restoring sight to the blind.

Posted on June 24, 2009 by designabilities

John Pezari brings us the award winning idea of restoring images through brain stimulation: Check this article about it on scienceblog! Or find deeper info in his paper: Pezaris, J. S. & Reid, R. C. (2007). Demonstration of artificial visual … Continue reading →

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Echolocation – Seeing with sound!

Posted on June 24, 2009 by designabilities

Here’s the first 10 minutes of a documentary called Extraordinary People: The Boy Who Sees Without Eyes. It’s about Ben Underwood, a blind teenager from Sacramento who uses echolocation.  Believe it or not – this documentary called “Extraordinary People” portraits … Continue reading →

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Blind people are better at finding their way…

Posted on June 24, 2009 by designabilities

…at least, that is what Madelaine Fortin of the Université de Montréal and her colleagues claim: Together with 19 blind participants and 19 sighted controls for their study they have been researching on blind and sighted spatial orientation. Here you … Continue reading →

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Welcome to DESIGNABILITIES!

Posted on June 1, 2009 by designabilities

… a research blog developed and run at      

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