New technology can help blind people hear, feel solar eclipse Boston 25 News [Video]

Those who are blind or visually impaired will be able to hear and feel the solar eclipse on April 8.

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For public gatherings for the upcoming solar eclipse, south and touch devices will be available, according to The Associated Press.

The LightSound box can translate light into sound so that people can hear and feel the eclipse.

The LightSound device was created in 2017 by Allyson Bieryla, a Harvard University astronomer, according to The New York Times. She worked with Wanda Díaz-Merced, an astronomer who is blind and used to work with the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.

Bieryla and Díaz-Merced created the device. The director of Harvard’s science demonstration lab, Daniel Davis, created a prototype, the newspaperreported. It is about the size of a paperback novel. It used a light sensor to measure the brightness of the sky. Then a code on a microcontroller board to make lux ranges. Then a synthesizer …