invention enables blind parents to see unborn baby through touch
I just love it when technology combines with a Art (always spell Art with a capital letter, please!) to create a truly bright idea we can touch and feel for the first time, you know, something that really creates one of those wow life moments?
This is one of those things. Take a look at this video (ignore the ad) and think about how amazing this would be if it were available on the national health service for free for a blind parent!
I don’t know how much this costs (being an early idea its probably prohibitive) but it has legs imho. I remember the first ultrascan that my Wife and I had of our first and second children, it was a life changing moment, we held that piece of paper in our hands, we cried, we felt reality, we grew, we bonded. Life was happening before our eyes and it was amazing.
I of course being a geek, scanned the picture immediately to keep it digitally forever, but just imagine if we had a life size model, we could touch and feel. I think this would have been a 100x more mind blowing.
In our home, pride of place on our ornament shelf are two beautiful glass hand casts of our children at the ages of 6 and 5, I’m sure we’d have purchased gladly 3D models of our children too. Its just a nice, once-in-a-moment thing to have to keep forever.
If your a parent, you’ll feel how great this idea is because you know that your children were part of your life long before they were born.
Congrats to the creator of this idea. I really hope to see this technology get to mainstream.
I think someone should think about leading a campaign to bring this technology for free to every blind mother/father in the world, this would be amazing, for a blind parent to touch her unborn child as she can’t see a 2D printout of an ultrascan.
If this idea appeals to you, run with it. Change the world and let all blind mothers/fathers see their unborn child for the first time through touch! Get your state/county to fund it, create new donation funds to pay for it, just make it happen!
A model maker from the London Royal college of Art has created something truly, totally amazing.
http://abcnews.go.com/video/playerIndex?id=7975555
Ian Hayward
