Blind Teen Uses Echolocation to "See."

Posted by Alex in Video Clips, World Records on November 27, 2006 at 9:44 pm


When Ben Underwood was 2 years old, his eyes were surgically removed because of cancer. Since then, he has somehow mastered echolocation, the way bats and dolphins use sound to navigate.

Hit play or go to Link [YouTube], or read more about this remarkable teenager: CBS News | People Magazine | ABC
News - via haha.nu,
Thanks Dan!


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4 comments to "Blind Teen Uses Echolocation to "See.""

  1. Naomi
    November 27th, 2006 at 10:11 pm

    omg!

  2. Acedia
    November 28th, 2006 at 7:32 am

    Wow — the kid’s confidence and abilities are phenomenal but the mom should be not only teaching a course in working with the “differently abled” but should be heaped with praises and honors for what she has accomplishe in the hardest and often most thankless job in the world, being a mother.

  3. Brent
    November 28th, 2006 at 6:27 pm

    That is really amazing. I have told a couple people about this.

  4. JuannyMendez
    September 8th, 2008 at 1:27 am

    I’m baffled as to how he plays video games.


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