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Getty Images - STOCK(CAMBRIDGE, Mass.) As many turn their eyes to the skies to watch the solar eclipse, some with vision impairment are turning their ears to a new gadget.The LightSound is a 3D-printed device, about the size of a cell phone, which can register the changing brightness of light. It then turns that information into a variety of sounds using a process known as "sonification.""Sonification is just taking data and converting it into sound," says Allyson Bieryla, an astronomer at Harvard University. Bieryla came up with the idea for the LightSound ahead of the 2017 solar eclipse, alongside Wanda Díaz-Merced, an astronomer and sonification researcher who is blind. Bieryla says the LightSound represents an effort to use sonification to make astronomy more accessible to those with physical impairments.To do this, the LightSound emits a range of sounds based on the amount of light it receives, Bieryla tells ABC Audio."We have this Midi synthesizer boar

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Getty Images - STOCK(CAMBRIDGE, Mass.) As many turn their eyes to the skies to watch the solar eclipse, some with vision impairment are turning their ears to a new gadget.The LightSound is a 3D-printed device, about the size of a cell phone, which can register the changing brightness of light. It then turns that information into a variety of sounds using a process known as "sonification.""Sonification is just taking data and converting it into sound," says Allyson Bieryla, an astronomer at Harvard University. Bieryla came up with the idea for the LightSound ahead of the 2017 solar eclipse, alongside Wanda Díaz-Merced, an astronomer and sonification researcher who is blind. Bieryla says the LightSound represents an effort to use sonification to make astronomy more accessible to those with physical impairments.To do this, the LightSound emits a range of sounds based on the amount of light it receives, Bieryla tells ABC Audio."We have this Midi synthesizer boar

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