Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for February 15, 2023

See by way of tongue? What will they think of next….

As much as I’m not that bad of being visually impaired, sure would like to know how my sense of taste electrically helps my sense of sight.

That co-author cat probably went on to invent the first cat videos.

The co-author was catapulted to fame.

Oh man, the BrainPort is pretty incredible. It basically “just” uses a camera to convert an image into electrical impulses on the surface of the tongue, but it’s actually been found that in blind people, this actually forms connections between the tongue and the visual cortex. One man, Eric Weihenmayer, even uses it for rock climbing, allowing him to get to the top of Everest.

Have you ever touched a 9 volt battery to your tongue?

Once!

Jefferson Airplane already had that all figured out. “One man on the chessboard get up and tell you where to go.”

My cat has authored a few Pulitzer Prize winning hairballs.

So he couldn’t bring himself to give the cat full credit.

Take care, may relentless town crier Lliam “My Tongue Sees All Hears All And Speaks All And All In Good Taste” Gazettord be with you, and gesundheit.

I guess now Geordi’s banana clip visor from TNG doesn’t look so bad (see what I did there?).

And the cat got all the royalties

Believe it or not,George Santos still doesn’t know what his real name is

Was that one of Schrodinger’s cats?

To parapharse Mark Twain “The only people who should refer to themselves as ‘we’ are royality, editors, and people with tapeworms.”

There is surgery for blindness but I don’t know how common or expensive it is

The BrainPort™ is a distant ancestor to Geordi LaForge’s VISOR

Hetherington was a Michigan State professor, interestingly enough.

So when the blind users suddenly tastes sour, it means they’re about to bump their head?