Software engineering/product development: Artificial sight for the blind.

Title:

Making the Blind See

Objective:

To make a device that will take visual feed, change in into a stream of data, 
evaluate the data, and emit the cooresponding electromagnetic waves that mimic 
brain impulses to produce an 'artificial' sight.

Justification:

Many blind people were born that way, they were never allowed the gift of sight, 
they were never able to experience the world around them the way others that are 
not so handicapped have. To enable them to see, even a small amount, would be a 
great step toward tearing down one of the immense barriers set in front of the 
human race.

Description:

Live video feed will be streamed in, and will undergo a process of being turned into 
video files. The data in these files will then be converted into the same types of 
waves the human body uses to encode information of the outside world. These 
waves can then be interpreted by the blind persons brain, and it will be as if they 
can see.

Limitations:

The video feed will not be live, due to the fact that it will take time to process the 
video into electromagnetic waves. Furthurmore, the final visual that the brain 
translates will probably be 'pixalated' to they point that they would probably still be 
visually impaired, but it is still a step up. Finally, there is the fact that it would be 
awfully hard to test, there are not very many people just walking around that would 
let you use their head for experimenting.