Here's Why

How many fingers am I holding up?

This is taken from the book "Science Fact" edited by Professor Frank George and published by Angus & Robertson in 1978.
"A BLIND MAN SEES
This San Francisco student has been blind since birth. A miniature TV Camera sees images which are transmitted to stomach nerves through the waistband instrument. These nerves transmit the picture pattern to the brain which activates the visual center of the brain and the patient sees!"

About the author: Ian Woolf lives in Sydney, has a degree in Applied Science, worked as a solar astronomer, software engineer, systems programmer, webmaster, research assistant, Cisco CCNA tutor, Physics laboratory demonstrator, Computational Theory lecturer, and subject coordinator; while changing his career to freelance writing and broadcasting. Listen to Ian on the Diffusion radio science show on radio 2SER 107.3FM Monday at 6:30pm in Sydney or streaming audio on www.2ser.com, or listen to the Diffusion podcasts. You should follow me on twitter, here

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