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Letting the blind see

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I had the honor of knowing Bill Dobelle for more than 25 years.  With his ever-present bowtie, he was enamored with bringing sight to the blind (which number about 15 million people around the world).  I am sure if he hadn’t died prematurely at 64, he would have succeeded completely.   As it was, he managed to enable those who had lost their sight to recognize shapes, patterns, and colors, using a series of implanted electrodes.

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Intersections

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Do you remember the George Carlin routines about cars and driving?  One of my favorites…

                       George to his passenger:  “Do you want to see how my brother drives?”  (this after a series of escapades with                             radio tuning knobs- the ones our car radios no longer have…) 

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Solar Panels on Paper- really! And, more!

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Drs. Gleason and Bulovic (ChemE and EE departments of MIT), along with 7 other researchers (ChemE, EE, and Materials Science of MIT) have made a tremendous breakthrough in solar “panels”.  Why is “panels” in quotes?  These panels can be “printed” on copy paper, tracing paper, tissue, and newsprint.  They can even be folded into different shapes. (These results were published in Advanced Materials.)

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