How A Blind Person Can "See" Using Echolocation
Flickr Photo/rogerwshaw
Brian Bushway is blind, but he says he can "see" just as well as anyone else using a technique called echolocation. Like a bat, he makes sounds with his mouth to locate and identify cars, bushes, walls and chain link fences. He can even ride a bicycle.
Full list of stories from KUOW Presents, July 30:
- Chinese Make Good Business of Bad Air
- Diary of A Bad Year: A War Correspondent's Dilemma
- Blind Man Uses Echolocation To See
- Wrongfully Convicted Allowed To Seek Compensation From State Starting This Week
- Marjorie Manwaring’s “Church Camp-out, 1978”
- Smart Homes Vulnerable to Intrusion
- How Pacific Lamprey Could Help Nourish Streams
- Writer's Almanac
- The Pope's Press Conference
- Marjorie Manwaring's "Church Camp-out, 1978"
- "The Conversation" Heads To Summer Camp
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As KUOW's Growth and Development reporter and co-host of KUOW's Booming podcast, Joshua's "growing pains" beat sits at the nexus of housing, transportation, urban planning, government and the economy. His favorite stories also include themes of history, technology, and climate change.
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