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Amazingly, the blind may need just a new pair of glasses to see in the near future. An awesome invention has turned images into sound, according to The Daily Mail.

This is the VOICE.  It is a pair of glasses that is connected to a small computer. The computer scans from left to right, and transforms images from the real world outside into particular sounds.

Hence, the glasses can make the blind find what is real in the world, and figure them out.

The study, called "Auditory Sensory Substitution is Intuitive and Automatic with Texture Stimuli," published by Caltech Coda and led by Shinsuke Shimojo, professor of experimental psychology at Gertrude Baltimore. It explained how the sound delves into sounds and converts them into images.

"Many neuroscience textbooks really only devote a few pages to multisensory interaction," said Shimojo. "But 99 percent of our daily life depends on multisensory, also called multimodal processing."

Hence, when we are listening, we are able to link other senses to what we hear. For example, when you make a phone call, you can hear a friend crying, and may be able to visualise him shedding tears, as well as looking sad.

"This is an example of the way sensory causality is not unidirectional - vision can influence sound, and sound can influence vision," added Shimojo.