Beta Tank’s MindChair

Get down to the Design and the Elastic Mind exhibition at MoMA in New York and you can check out a chair that let’s you see through your skin:

mind chair

The Mind Chair describes a possible application of the sensory substitution technique developed by Dr Paul Bach-y-Rita in the late 1960s in which moving imagery is perceived in the mind via nerves in the skin rather than the eyes.

The obvious application for such a chair would be to let the blind ’see’. But I reckon it could also…

Beta Tank’s MindChair

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