How LEGO Helps Blind People See
Can blind people see? How LEGO can bring the world to those with visual impairments. Thank you to Google's Making and Science team for supporting this video. → #sciencegoals Video description...
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[PBS Digital Studios opening bumper] [Vanessa and Matthew Shifrin appear on screen sitting at a kitchen table] Can blind people see? If you have someone like me, who was born blind and who doesn’t remember seeing, a lot of your perceptual info is tactile, auditory and smell based. Would you say that you can see? Then we go back to the issue of what is seeing. But I can imagine, yes. I can perceive what I think might be there. I can estimate, that’s the term. [Text appears] LEGO for the blind A short(ish) documentary by Vanessa Hill. [cut to shot of Vanessa in hotel room speaking to camera] So a couple of months ago I received an email from Matthew Shifrin, a recent high school graduate from Boston who said he enjoyed watching BrainCraft and buil...
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[PBS Digital Studios opening bumper] [Vanessa and Matthew Shifrin appear on screen sitting at a kitchen table] Can blind people see? If you have someone like me, who was born blind and who doesn’t remember seeing, a lot of your perceptual info is tactile, auditory and smell based. Would you say that you can see? Then we go back to the issue of what is seeing. But I can imagine, yes. I can perceive what I think might be there. I can estimate, that’s the term. [Text appears] LEGO for the blind A short(ish) documentary by Vanessa Hill. [cut to shot of Vanessa in hotel room speaking to camera] So a couple of months ago I received an email from Matthew Shifrin, a recent high school graduate from Boston who said he enjoyed watching BrainCraft and buil...
