Blind people can hear and feel April’s total solar eclipse with new technology [Video]

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A workshop participant solders components for a LightSound device at the New England Sci-Tech education center in Natick, Mass., on March 2, 2024. The device is the result of a collaboration between Wanda Díaz-Merced, an astronomer who is blind, and Harvard astronomer Allyson Bieryla. Díaz-Merced regularly translates her data into audio to analyze patterns for her research. (AP Photo/Mary Conlon)

WASHINGTON (AP) — While eclipse watchers look to the skies, people who are blind or visually impaired will be able to hear and feel the celestial event.

Sound and touch devices will be available at public gatherings on April 8, when a total solar eclipse crosses North America, the moon blotting out the sun for a few minutes.

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