14 DAY TRIAL // A research team at the University Carlos III of Madrid has announced that they designed an upgrade for the problematic rear-window captioning system currently used by deaf people: a glasses-mounted subtitle screen. The device fixes onto a person's glasses to give them access to subtitles. Since cinema huge subtitles aren't yet implemented, a pair of subtitle-reading glasses will probably determine deaf or hard of hearing people to finally embrace cinema movies.
Here's how it'll work. A computer in the cinema emits the subtitles to within a 50 meters range and also handles their synchronization. A receptor in the glasses captures the signal and projects it onto the tiny screen, which fits over the right-hand lens. Another feature allows the person behind the glasses to use one button to turn the device on, one to turn it off and another one to restart it.
The screen is probably that small because people with hearing problems have no sight problems and shouldn't complain about the squinting or the irritated eyes (ahem). One more thing! Aren't the glass-displayed subtitles supposed to cover parts of the screen?
The gadget features just 3 hours battery life, so it certainly can't help people know what Frodo is talking about in the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy. I wouldn't be surprised if some companies will pay for special advertising campaigns in order to implant "ideas" into the subconscious of deaf people. I see it more as a potential delivery system for text flashes containing subliminal messages like: "Coca Cola Coca Cola Coca Cola ".
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