New Glasses Offer Select Subtitles

For those who are hard of hearing or are afraid of missing a line or two when Jack Nicholson mumbles his way through the action, Madrid’s Carlos III University for the Spanish Center for Subtitles and Closed Captions has come up with a solution. A computer installed in the theater emits close-captioning if you are within 50 meters (~54 yards) of the screen. With the touch of an on/off button, glasses that house receptors catch the signal and project it onto a microscreen in the right lens. If you want subtitles only during select scenes, the glasses will keep up and project what is going on at that point. Now if they could just invent something that will make violence a little less of a bloodbath on screen.

 

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