{"id":4089,"date":"2016-08-10T18:36:46","date_gmt":"2016-08-10T16:36:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pesimismodigital.com\/muere-inventor-tv-ciegos-2\/"},"modified":"2016-11-11T00:00:14","modified_gmt":"2016-11-10T23:00:14","slug":"dies-inventor-tv-for-blinds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pesimismodigital.com\/en\/dies-inventor-tv-for-blinds\/","title":{"rendered":"Rachid Shell, inventor of TV for blinds, dies"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"dropcap\">R<\/span>achid Shell, 61, an Algerian born in Paris and naturalized US citizen, inventor of the screens for the blind, died yesterday in New York, for unknown reasons.<\/p>\n<p>In early 1984, Rachid popularized the screens to blind people, saying it had invented a new system. By low frequency waves, the images came directly to the brain client and did not even need to connect the TV to the mains.<\/p>\n<p>All this caused no little controversy and accusations of fraud.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1123\" style=\"width: 341px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.20minutos.es\/noticia\/2134732\/0\/implante-chip\/recuperar-vision\/ciegos-francia\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1123\" class=\"wp-image-1123\" src=\"https:\/\/davidmayo.files.wordpress.com\/2016\/09\/teleold.jpg?w=680\" alt=\"TV para ciegos\" width=\"331\" height=\"249\" data-wpmedia-src=\"https:\/\/davidmayo.files.wordpress.com\/2016\/09\/teleold.jpg\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1123\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pesimismodigital.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/camera4.png\" alt=\"Foto\" width=\"20\" height=\"20\" align=\"left\" \/>TV Visionics showing\u00a0serie Cheers, 1985. Source:\u00a0Unknown.<\/p><\/div>\n<h4>Success and controversy.<\/h4>\n<p>Some TVs in your company Visionics seemed limited to <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">older models owned by Philips<\/span>, with a remote control in Braile. No less than five hundred thousand devices were sold worldwide in those 80 years.<\/p>\n<p>From the beginning there were discrepancies. The blind journalist Michael Skeptical, he snapped at Shell, in a press conference: &#8220;<em>You&#8217;re a jerk, this sucks and can not see anything<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Others, however, claimed the miracle, as Ryan Mate, saying to see everything clearly: &#8221; <em>I have never seen so well God bless America!<\/em>&#8220;.<\/p>\n<p>As they were distributing apparatus, various associations for the blind perpetrated numerous attacks on shops and even against Rachid, who always defended his idea.<\/p>\n<p>It is said that the last years of his life, Rachid himself became blind due to continuous exposure to conventional screens. It seems that finally admitted: &#8220;<em>It&#8217;s true, there&#8217;s nothing there, dammit!<\/em>&#8221; R.I.P.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rachid Shell, 61, an Algerian born in Paris and naturalized US citizen, inventor of the screens for the blinds, died yesterday for unknown reasons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2535,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[239,228],"tags":[443,268,235,445],"class_list":["post-4089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international","category-people","tag-blinds","tag-death","tag-digital-pessimism","tag-tv"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast 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