<feed version="0.3" xml:lang="en-us" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><generator>Plime/1</generator><title>Blind man sees wife for first time after having a TOOTH implanted into his eye : ATOM 0.3</title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/"/><tagline>Blind man sees wife for first time after having a TOOTH implanted into his eye : ATOM 0.3</tagline><author><name>www.plime.com</name><email>plime@plime.com</email></author><copyright>2009, www.plime.com.</copyright><modified>2009-11-29T03:43:13+01:00</modified><entry><title><![CDATA[Blind man sees wife for first time after having a TOOTH implanted into his eye]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/science/l/126670/1/" /><id>126670</id><summary><![CDATA[Blind man sees wife for first time after having a TOOTH implanted into his eye]]></summary><issued>2009-07-04T10:51:18+01:00</issued><modified>2009-07-04T10:51:18+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[When Martin Jones met his wife four years ago, he never imagined that one day he would get to see what she looked like. The 42-year-old builder was left blind after an accident at work more than a decade ago.<br/><br/>But a remarkable operation - which implants part of his tooth in his eye -  has now pierced his world of darkness. With details on the <a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://www.plime.com/l/52346/1/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">procedure mentioned here</a>]]></content></entry><hr size='1' class='line' noshade/><div style='padding-top:20px;height:300px;margin-right:10px;float:left;'><script type="text/javascript"><!--
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</script></div><entry><title><![CDATA[Blind man sees with the aid of son's tooth]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/science/l/52346/1/" /><id>52346</id><summary><![CDATA[Blind man sees with the aid of son's tooth]]></summary><issued>2008-02-27T21:34:05+01:00</issued><modified>2008-02-27T21:34:05+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[An Irishman blinded by an explosion two years ago has had his sight restored after doctors inserted his son's tooth in his eye.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Blind man sees wife &amp; kids for the first time]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/37140/1/" /><id>37140</id><summary><![CDATA[Blind man sees wife &amp; kids for the first time]]></summary><issued>2007-10-02T17:47:17+01:00</issued><modified>2007-10-02T17:47:17+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[In today's GOOD news...]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Blind ambition sees pilot Miles set record]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/18461/1/" /><id>18461</id><summary><![CDATA[Blind ambition sees pilot Miles set record]]></summary><issued>2007-04-30T02:13:37+01:00</issued><modified>2007-04-30T02:13:37+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Blind pilot Miles Hilton-Barber felt euphoric when he touched down at Sydney's Bankstown Airport just before 8am, becoming the first blind man to fly halfway around the world.<br/><br/>Update on an <a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://www.plime.com/l/17714/1/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">earlier post</a>.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Blind Granny Healed With Tooth-Implant In Eye]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/weird/l/133256/1/" /><id>133256</id><summary><![CDATA[Blind Granny Healed With Tooth-Implant In Eye]]></summary><issued>2009-09-19T03:35:29+01:00</issued><modified>2009-09-19T03:35:29+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[A formerly blind grandmother has regained her sight after surgeons implanted a tooth in her eye.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Eating in total darkness, served by blind waiters.]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/weird/l/5621/1/" /><id>5621</id><summary><![CDATA[Eating in total darkness, served by blind waiters.]]></summary><issued>2006-11-13T09:49:30+01:00</issued><modified>2006-11-13T09:49:30+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[New restaurant opens in London, Dans Le Noir.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Blind can take wheel with vehicle designed by university engineering design team]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/science/l/128095/1/" /><id>128095</id><summary><![CDATA[Blind can take wheel with vehicle designed by university engineering design team]]></summary><issued>2009-07-16T22:54:46+01:00</issued><modified>2009-07-16T22:54:46+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[A retrofitted four-wheel dirt buggy developed by the Blind Driver Challenge team  uses laser range finders, an instant voice command interface and a host of other innovative, cutting-edge technology to guide blind drivers as they steer, brake, and accelerate.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[How the Brain Learns to See]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/133246/1/" /><id>133246</id><summary><![CDATA[How the Brain Learns to See]]></summary><issued>2009-09-19T00:49:51+01:00</issued><modified>2009-09-19T00:49:51+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Normally, babies learn how to look at the world before they can communicate their experiences. The rare cases of people who have been blind all their lives and then had their sight restored offer scientists a unique opportunity to study how we learn to interpret visual signals. Pawan Sinha is studying children and adolescents in India who are seeing the world for the first time after treatment for blindness.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Blind and Gay]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/82651/1/" /><id>82651</id><summary><![CDATA[Blind and Gay]]></summary><issued>2008-11-23T22:13:54+01:00</issued><modified>2008-11-23T22:13:54+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[The story about a blind man and his experience in the gay world.  Sorta sad.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Hybrid too quiet for the blind]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/technology/l/12264/1/" /><id>12264</id><summary><![CDATA[Hybrid too quiet for the blind]]></summary><issued>2007-03-05T07:28:16+01:00</issued><modified>2007-03-05T07:28:16+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[For years, people have moaned about how noisy cars can be, but you would never imagine that people would complain if cars were too quiet. That is exactly what Cheryl Martin, the director from the Lilac Blind Foundation, has been doing.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Hospital workers abandon blind patient at park after ex-wife refuses to take him in]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/41587/1/" /><id>41587</id><summary><![CDATA[Hospital workers abandon blind patient at park after ex-wife refuses to take him in]]></summary><issued>2007-11-14T08:10:01+01:00</issued><modified>2007-11-14T08:10:01+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Four hospital workers abandoned a blind patient with diabetes at an Osaka park in September after his former wife refused to take him in.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Million-year-old human tooth found]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/science/l/26297/1/" /><id>26297</id><summary><![CDATA[Million-year-old human tooth found]]></summary><issued>2007-07-05T11:16:06+01:00</issued><modified>2007-07-05T11:16:06+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Spanish researchers have reportedly unearthed a human tooth more than one million years old, which they estimated to be the oldest human fossil remain ever discovered in western Europe.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[John Bramblitt, blind artist]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/52754/1/" /><id>52754</id><summary><![CDATA[John Bramblitt, blind artist]]></summary><issued>2008-03-02T18:38:39+01:00</issued><modified>2008-03-02T18:38:39+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[A quick search turns up a multiplicity of blind artists, but I really like this man's art.  Link inspired by <a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://www.plime.com/l/52699/1/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">this post</a>.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Siafu, The PC for Blind People]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/technology/l/53920/1/" /><id>53920</id><summary><![CDATA[Siafu, The PC for Blind People]]></summary><issued>2008-03-11T17:55:15+01:00</issued><modified>2008-03-11T17:55:15+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[I've never seen anything like this, it looks incredible. A new type of PC for blind people. I can't describe it very well, so have a look.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Federal judge rules paper money is unfair to the blind.]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/weird/l/6634/1/" /><id>6634</id><summary><![CDATA[Federal judge rules paper money is unfair to the blind.]]></summary><issued>2006-11-29T08:27:37+01:00</issued><modified>2006-11-29T08:27:37+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Soon we won't be able to short change sightless people anymore.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[The Color Blind, And how They View the World.]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/44298/1/" /><id>44298</id><summary><![CDATA[The Color Blind, And how They View the World.]]></summary><issued>2007-12-15T08:54:00+01:00</issued><modified>2007-12-15T08:54:00+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Very interesting look on how the color blind see things compared to normal sight.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[The contact lens that can help the blind see again]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/science/l/118090/1/" /><id>118090</id><summary><![CDATA[The contact lens that can help the blind see again]]></summary><issued>2009-05-28T21:07:12+01:00</issued><modified>2009-05-28T21:07:12+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[The groundbreaking operation brought significant improvements in vision within a matter of weeks. <br/><br/>The procedure uses a person's own cells to heal damage to the cornea - the transparent outermost layer of the eye.<br/><br/>Fitting news for <a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://www.plime.com/f/6639/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">FAF</a> if eyes win.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Deaf and blind woman escapes her abductor then identifies the suspect]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/94554/1/" /><id>94554</id><summary><![CDATA[Deaf and blind woman escapes her abductor then identifies the suspect]]></summary><issued>2009-02-14T13:10:59+01:00</issued><modified>2009-02-14T13:10:59+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[The woman &#8212; deaf and mute, with vision so poor she's legally blind &#8212; had been sitting at a bus stop when she was approached by a man she thought was a co-worker. She was wrong!]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Rugby player finds rival's tooth buried in forehead]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/sports/l/27716/1/" /><id>27716</id><summary><![CDATA[Rugby player finds rival's tooth buried in forehead]]></summary><issued>2007-07-17T12:09:58+01:00</issued><modified>2007-07-17T12:09:58+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[An Australian rugby player who went to his doctor with severe headaches was amazed to find he'd been living with an opponent's tooth embedded in his forehead for months.<br/><a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://news.yahoo.com/photo/070717/photos_od_afp/24e99fe388ca39b068ef996271f6169a;_ylt=AsmHnheorD4ZOTUagoUfhpKhOrgF" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">See X-ray photo</a>]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Blind Bowler Scores Perfect Game]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/world/l/61132/1/" /><id>61132</id><summary><![CDATA[Blind Bowler Scores Perfect Game]]></summary><issued>2008-05-08T21:30:11+01:00</issued><modified>2008-05-08T21:30:11+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[A blind Iowa man scored a perfect 300 game at the Century Lanes bowling alley on Saturday, The Storm Lake Times reported.<br/><br/>&#8220;I can&#8217;t see the lane or the pins and have a heck of a time finding my ball sometimes,&#8221; Davis told The Times.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Mom Goes Blind So Her Daughters Can See ]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/science/l/133839/1/" /><id>133839</id><summary><![CDATA[Mom Goes Blind So Her Daughters Can See ]]></summary><issued>2009-09-29T18:40:09+01:00</issued><modified>2009-09-29T18:40:09+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Monique Zimmerman-Stein has been nearly blind for the last two years from Stickler syndrome, a rare genetic disorder. She recently decided to forgo her own treatment to save funds to treat her two daughters, who also suffer from the condition, reports Lane DeGregory of the St. Petersburg Times.]]></content></entry></feed>