[access-uk] Re: brain port question
- From: "Damon Rose" <damon.rose@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2010 15:14:02 -0000
Goodness knows. How about a vibrating insole in your shoe? After all, we
already pick up tactile information that way with blister paving and the
like. You could spread information from left foot to right foot
depending on where obstacles are.
I had a quick go with a bat cane once but felt my own echo location was
better and I didn't need to do any on-the-fly interpreting of sounds.
Depending on the gadget, there's also a big worry that I'll look like a
bit of a prat. There's no way I'll be wearing anything or moving
differently in order to play with a gizmo.
I think the way forward is electronic mapping of areas. So, at
Paddington station, I'd tap into my mobile phone that I want to go to
platform 10 and it creates a virtual line through the air, a piece of
invisible electronic string slung across some coordinates, which I then
follow either by use of a tone which tells me whether I'm warm or cold,
or by a vibration. The more it vibrates, the closer to the line that I
have to follow, I am.
-----Original Message-----
From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Peter Meijer
Sent: 16 March 2010 13:27
To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [access-uk] Re: brain port question
Hi Damon and all,
I read all posts concerning the media frenzy about the BrainPort with
interest. Being well aware that real progress takes much time, and being
the developer of an alternative to the BrainPort device, I am seriously
interested in finding the right ways to go about and in the longer run
make a difference, with the input from blind users. I'd welcome any
ideas that you may have on making the path a bit smoother while leaving
room for exploring new possibilities that may or may not pan out as we
go.
Best regards,
Peter Meijer
Seeing with Sound - The vOICe
http://www.seeingwithsound.com
> I've gotta say that a tongue device is possibly the poorest example
of a > scientific breakthrough that I've heard of, around sight loss.
If this > is society's best answer, and they've put in oodles of
research to get > this far, then god help us. It really feels like
duplication of work > too. This isn't new ... But the tongue as
interface is new. There have > been devices previously which cast
vibrating images on your back, for > instance, why is the tongue any
better? I'd suggest it's far worse. And > antisocial to boot, as well
as possibly a choking hazard.
>
> Does anyone remember that episode of South Park where Mr Garrison >
invents a new mode of flying transport that involves putting something
> up an unmentionable area? Seriously, it'll be on its way folks. Anal
> navigation for the blind and it'll be given just as much media
coverage > and sold as a breakthrough. And the media will buy it.
Again.
>
> ...Damon
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