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Penn State Researchers Focus Work On A "Third Eye"

The "Third Eye," which is being developed by Dr. Vijay Narayanan and his team of researchers in Penn State's Microsystems Design Lab.

In Pennsylvania today, more than a quarter of a million people live with a visual impairment.  For them, daily life presents many challenges. In Penn State's Microsystems Design Lab, researchers and students are creating technology to help visually impaired people with one particularly difficult task--grocery shopping.  WPSU intern Carter Clabaugh  visited the lab to find out more about the invention, aptly named "Third Eye."

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