Having a complete lack of light and form perception, blindness prevents the accessibility of information technologies such as television and the internet. The "seeing" population use video and imagery for a large part of their information gathering and communication. This leaves the blind at a tremendous disadvantage. But, by developing an adaptive tool that simulates temperature, space, objects and movement, through a set of tactile constants such as texture, vibration, and temperature changes, this would allow a person to "see" video and imagery for the first time. In the same way a book might be translated into a different language, video and imagery could be translated into a tactile language, one where you would see with your hands. Using a "sensor pad" that a person would rest their hands upon, a video of a field of daisy's on a bright sunny day, for example, might be represented as a fluctuating field of warmth and mild vibration, indicating wind and sky and sun, with hills and daisies being represented as a series of raised and lowered geometric bumps. This tactile information might change subtlety, or alter more significantly, if for example a bird flew by.
