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On Tech & Vision With Dr. Cal Roberts

Sep 17, 2021

This podcast is about big ideas on how technology is making life better for people with vision loss.

Close your eyes. Raise your hands. Reach out and touch the nearest surface. What are you touching? A desktop, a leather steering wheel cover, a porcelain cup, a plastic keyboard? Our sense of touch and the way in which...


Sep 8, 2021

This podcast is about big ideas on how technology is making life better for people with vision loss.

Today’s big idea highlights how innovations don’t happen in a vacuum, but rather a long chain of science and research and developments that build on each other. Dr. Shelley Fried’s work exemplifies this process. It...


Sep 8, 2021

This podcast is about big ideas on how technology is making life better for people with vision loss.

This episode’s big idea is navigation and how to implement a navigation solution that enables people with vision impairment to broadly travel cities — how and when they want to, independently. Dr. Roberts talks with...


Sep 8, 2021

This podcast is about big ideas on how technology is making life better for people with vision loss.

Today’s big idea is: How will remote diagnostic tests change ophthalmology and vision care? It might be a foreign concept for some, but the specialists in today’s episode, Dr. Peter Pham and Dr. Sean Ianchulev,...


Sep 8, 2021

This podcast is about big ideas on how technology is making life better for people with vision loss.

Today’s big idea centers on the place where big ideas get born — the human brain. In today’s episode, Dr. Roberts and his guests explore theories of brain plasticity, sensory substitution, and sensory augmentation....