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New eyewear could help the visually impaired
Young inventors develop novel electronics to help people identify colors and navigate obstacles.
By Sid Perkins
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Integrate qualitative scientific and technical information to support the claim that digitized signals (sent as wave pulses) are a more reliable way to encode and transmit information.
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