'Seeing-eye vest' could help the blind navigate via vibration

Imagine if instead of swinging a white cane, a visually impaired person could wear clothing that senses things in the environment and relays that information through touch. That's the dream of a team of scientists and engineers at a company called Tactile Navigation Tools, which is developing a vest embedded with sensors that can detect objects or people nearby and convert the signals into vibrations felt by the body. SEE ALSO: Bionic humans: top 10 technologies The device, known as Eyeronman, w...