Tuesday, May 27, 2008

Who said Computer Games Were a Waste of Technology?

My son and his friends are hard core gamers. For that reason I'm able to keep up with latest trends, and one device he has talked about over the years is a pair of 'glasses' that you wear to play computer games instead of watching a computer monitor.

I never actually saw a good example of this, but now I find that the technology has been adapted for partially blind and people suffering from macular degeneration.

This is quite amazing to me because only last week I attended my brother-in-law's 80th birthday party. Phil has been extremely active all his life as a farmer and later as a builder. However now all those sun-bleached days on the tractor are now wreaking vengeance on his eyes in the form of increasing macular degeneration, even though he still has the energy to be out there working every day.

Take a look at this device and you'll be amazed. They describe it as taking a partially blind person into a cinema with a seventy foot screen. And if you have a paltry four G's it's yours. Check the video on the site as well.

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