Ask HN: Ideas for a prosthesis for sense substitution?
For sense substitution you usually need:
- a portable sensor (If possible something that moves with your body, this direct feedback makes learning much easier and might be key to a intuitive sense-like feeling. e.g. an IR-thermometer attached to a finger.)
- an interface / feedback (translating what the sensor senses to human sense. e.g. the thermometer reading to vibration)
feel free to submit known experiments also, I know there are quite a few. Yet I find it surprising, that most sensors that are portable and somewhat useful are already covered by the human body.