2007 Newsletters
Erik Demonstrates BrainPort Device on Today Show on Tuesday, October
Oct 5th, 2007Erik Demonstrates BrainPort Device on Today Show on Tuesday, October 9
In the 9:00 am hour (probably at 9:35 a.m.), Ann Curry of the Today Show will interview Erik and Aimee Arnoldussen, the scientist working on BrainPort technology. A camera mounted on Erik's head will send a grid of pulses, representing Erik's field of vision, to his tongue which transmits those pulses to the brain which is able to interpret the pulses into a visual picture. Essentially, the tongue takes the place of the eye as the receiver and transmitter of signals which become "sight." This artificial vision project is making big headway now from a research focus to day-to-day applicability.
PV Takes a Wild and Dangerous Trip Down the Tekeze
PV Scaturro, who led Erik's historic Everest expedition in 2001, has made first-descents on some of the world's most adventurous rivers, including the Tekeze in 1996 (a feature movie for Turner TV). PV has returned recently from the Tekeze where he took an 18-day 500-kms raft through one of the most remote areas of Ethiopia. The Tekeze River, the largest tributary to the Nile after the White and Blue Niles, originates in the Ethiopian highlands at 15,000+ feet, in lands predominately occupied by Orthodox Ethiopian Christian tribes, and flows into the Nile at Atbara, Sudan. PV's expedition stopped just before entering Sudan because the boundary between Ethiopia and Enitrea is a war zone administered by U.N. peacekeeper
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