Re: [AI] Wanted - ideas for accessible gadgets.
isn't there any website? - Original Message - From: mukesh jain mukesh.jai...@gmail.com To: accessindia@accessindia.org.in Sent: Sunday, January 01, 2012 9:47 PM Subject: Re: [AI] Wanted - ideas for accessible gadgets. hello, sometime back there use to be one good publication by national association for the blind, lui braille memorial research centre, mumbai called guide of aids and appliances for the blind witch comprised of such many devices witch are available in open market and can also be used by vi persons in their daily life with more comfort and ease. don't know any updated publication has been undertaken by them or not. one can contact on 022-23726748 for more information. thanks, mukesh. On 1/1/12, Rahul Bajaj rahul.bajaj10...@gmail.com wrote: There are so many devices that are available for blind and VI people in the market. But many of us don't even know that the devices that we are looking for already exist. I wish we had a complete and comprehensive list of all the devices that are available. On 01/01/2012, Rahul Bajaj rahul.bajaj10...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, This really sounds very promising! The remote would be really very, very useful. I think that another thing that can be considered is a device which can be used for face recognition. For example, if one takes a person's photo, then that photo can be stored in the device's data with that person's name. So, the user of that device will then be able to identify the other person's face just by taking his photo. The device will be able to recall the stored data and tell its user the name of the person in the photo. Does something like this already exist? On 01/01/2012, m.chandrashekar chandru...@gmail.com wrote: hai dear prashant, I wish you happy new year 2012, really this is great idea with less expensive. I really appritiate your idea and effort in this direction. thank you and all the best in future innovation. with best regards m.chandru - Original Message - From: Prashant Ranjan Verma pr_ve...@hotmail.com To: accessindia@accessindia.org.in Sent: Thursday, December 29, 2011 9:29 PM Subject: Re: [AI] Wanted - ideas for accessible gadgets. I have informed at various forums that we are using a makeshift solution which has served us well. One can easily get cordless Call bell also known as wireless door bell in the market for as low as Rs. 200. It consists of a unit that is plugged into electricity and hung up on the wall. It has a small remote control with AA batteries that can ring this bel easily from 50 to 100 meters. I have installed the bell on the front of our building and my wife who is totally blind always carries the remote with her. At times when she is coming home alone she uses the remote to ring the bell outside our building and is able to locate and enter it using the sound clues. Our neighbours initially did ask why are you installing the door bell outside the house but now they understand and are amused to see the system working. One can buy several sets of the same brand and then install the door bell at various places. The same remote will be able to ring them. I have been using this system for more than five years now. Prashant -Original Message- From: accessindia-boun...@accessindia.org.in [mailto:accessindia-boun...@accessindia.org.in] On Behalf Of Dinesh Kaushal Sent: 29 December 2011 19:41 To: accessindia@accessindia.org.in Subject: Re: [AI] Wanted - ideas for accessible gadgets. Similar device is available though at very high price. The device is called SoundPost, and price is $545 if you buy one handset and 2 base stations. One base station is for $195 and 1 handset is for $175. For more information look at Povidi's website. http://www.povidi.com/ -Original Message- From: accessindia-boun...@accessindia.org.in [mailto:accessindia-boun...@accessindia.org.in] On Behalf Of George Abraham Sent: 29 December 2011 5:08 PM To: accessindia@accessindia.org.in Subject: Re: [AI] Wanted - ideas for accessible gadgets. This perhaps could be linked with the GPS and be operated vide our mobile phones. - Original Message - From: Pranay Gadodia pranaygado...@gmail.com To: accessindia@accessindia.org.in Sent: Thursday, December 29, 2011 1:06 PM Subject: Re: [AI] Wanted - ideas for accessible gadgets. Hi, Indeed such a gadget for door identification would really help to independently enter the right gate at home, or in office too if allowed. This would be specially helpful when there are many adjacent doors/gates and there is no good accessible landmark or clue to identify our door/gate. GPS does not work with such precision. 1. Perhaps, I would suggest the portable part that one would carry could indicate with sound or vibration or both, rather then the one which is installed on the door beeping and letting everyone around know that I have reached. Smile! 2. Also it would be useful to design in a way that if more than one person visit
Re: [AI] Wanted - ideas for accessible gadgets.
Hi, This really sounds very promising! The remote would be really very, very useful. I think that another thing that can be considered is a device which can be used for face recognition. For example, if one takes a person's photo, then that photo can be stored in the device's data with that person's name. So, the user of that device will then be able to identify the other person's face just by taking his photo. The device will be able to recall the stored data and tell its user the name of the person in the photo. Does something like this already exist? On 01/01/2012, m.chandrashekar chandru...@gmail.com wrote: hai dear prashant, I wish you happy new year 2012, really this is great idea with less expensive. I really appritiate your idea and effort in this direction. thank you and all the best in future innovation. with best regards m.chandru - Original Message - From: Prashant Ranjan Verma pr_ve...@hotmail.com To: accessindia@accessindia.org.in Sent: Thursday, December 29, 2011 9:29 PM Subject: Re: [AI] Wanted - ideas for accessible gadgets. I have informed at various forums that we are using a makeshift solution which has served us well. One can easily get cordless Call bell also known as wireless door bell in the market for as low as Rs. 200. It consists of a unit that is plugged into electricity and hung up on the wall. It has a small remote control with AA batteries that can ring this bel easily from 50 to 100 meters. I have installed the bell on the front of our building and my wife who is totally blind always carries the remote with her. At times when she is coming home alone she uses the remote to ring the bell outside our building and is able to locate and enter it using the sound clues. Our neighbours initially did ask why are you installing the door bell outside the house but now they understand and are amused to see the system working. One can buy several sets of the same brand and then install the door bell at various places. The same remote will be able to ring them. I have been using this system for more than five years now. Prashant -Original Message- From: accessindia-boun...@accessindia.org.in [mailto:accessindia-boun...@accessindia.org.in] On Behalf Of Dinesh Kaushal Sent: 29 December 2011 19:41 To: accessindia@accessindia.org.in Subject: Re: [AI] Wanted - ideas for accessible gadgets. Similar device is available though at very high price. The device is called SoundPost, and price is $545 if you buy one handset and 2 base stations. One base station is for $195 and 1 handset is for $175. For more information look at Povidi's website. http://www.povidi.com/ -Original Message- From: accessindia-boun...@accessindia.org.in [mailto:accessindia-boun...@accessindia.org.in] On Behalf Of George Abraham Sent: 29 December 2011 5:08 PM To: accessindia@accessindia.org.in Subject: Re: [AI] Wanted - ideas for accessible gadgets. This perhaps could be linked with the GPS and be operated vide our mobile phones. - Original Message - From: Pranay Gadodia pranaygado...@gmail.com To: accessindia@accessindia.org.in Sent: Thursday, December 29, 2011 1:06 PM Subject: Re: [AI] Wanted - ideas for accessible gadgets. Hi, Indeed such a gadget for door identification would really help to independently enter the right gate at home, or in office too if allowed. This would be specially helpful when there are many adjacent doors/gates and there is no good accessible landmark or clue to identify our door/gate. GPS does not work with such precision. 1. Perhaps, I would suggest the portable part that one would carry could indicate with sound or vibration or both, rather then the one which is installed on the door beeping and letting everyone around know that I have reached. Smile! 2. Also it would be useful to design in a way that if more than one person visit the place, more such portable parts could be configured with a particular installed piece. Or, the system uses a single protocol, so that if I have the portable one, and I visit a friend or an organisation which has installed this device on their gate, it can direct me. 3. Developing the wish list further, could it be possible that the portable part gives the first indication when I am say 50 metres away from the door, and then it keeps announcing the remaining distance in feet/metres as I approach it. Or it could beep faster as I approach. 4. If this vibrates as well, would be useful to deaf-blind people too. As I think more, I am wondering - Doesn't such a product/technology already exists? thanks, Pranay. - Original Message - From: Geetha Shamanna gee...@millernorbert.de To: accessindia@accessindia.org.in Sent: Thursday, December 29, 2011 12:43 AM Subject: Re: [AI] Wanted - ideas for accessible gadgets. Hi Vamshi, There used to be such a device at All India Confederation of the Blind in Delhi some
Re: [AI] Wanted - ideas for accessible gadgets.
There are so many devices that are available for blind and VI people in the market. But many of us don't even know that the devices that we are looking for already exist. I wish we had a complete and comprehensive list of all the devices that are available. On 01/01/2012, Rahul Bajaj rahul.bajaj10...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, This really sounds very promising! The remote would be really very, very useful. I think that another thing that can be considered is a device which can be used for face recognition. For example, if one takes a person's photo, then that photo can be stored in the device's data with that person's name. So, the user of that device will then be able to identify the other person's face just by taking his photo. The device will be able to recall the stored data and tell its user the name of the person in the photo. Does something like this already exist? On 01/01/2012, m.chandrashekar chandru...@gmail.com wrote: hai dear prashant, I wish you happy new year 2012, really this is great idea with less expensive. I really appritiate your idea and effort in this direction. thank you and all the best in future innovation. with best regards m.chandru - Original Message - From: Prashant Ranjan Verma pr_ve...@hotmail.com To: accessindia@accessindia.org.in Sent: Thursday, December 29, 2011 9:29 PM Subject: Re: [AI] Wanted - ideas for accessible gadgets. I have informed at various forums that we are using a makeshift solution which has served us well. One can easily get cordless Call bell also known as wireless door bell in the market for as low as Rs. 200. It consists of a unit that is plugged into electricity and hung up on the wall. It has a small remote control with AA batteries that can ring this bel easily from 50 to 100 meters. I have installed the bell on the front of our building and my wife who is totally blind always carries the remote with her. At times when she is coming home alone she uses the remote to ring the bell outside our building and is able to locate and enter it using the sound clues. Our neighbours initially did ask why are you installing the door bell outside the house but now they understand and are amused to see the system working. One can buy several sets of the same brand and then install the door bell at various places. The same remote will be able to ring them. I have been using this system for more than five years now. Prashant -Original Message- From: accessindia-boun...@accessindia.org.in [mailto:accessindia-boun...@accessindia.org.in] On Behalf Of Dinesh Kaushal Sent: 29 December 2011 19:41 To: accessindia@accessindia.org.in Subject: Re: [AI] Wanted - ideas for accessible gadgets. Similar device is available though at very high price. The device is called SoundPost, and price is $545 if you buy one handset and 2 base stations. One base station is for $195 and 1 handset is for $175. For more information look at Povidi's website. http://www.povidi.com/ -Original Message- From: accessindia-boun...@accessindia.org.in [mailto:accessindia-boun...@accessindia.org.in] On Behalf Of George Abraham Sent: 29 December 2011 5:08 PM To: accessindia@accessindia.org.in Subject: Re: [AI] Wanted - ideas for accessible gadgets. This perhaps could be linked with the GPS and be operated vide our mobile phones. - Original Message - From: Pranay Gadodia pranaygado...@gmail.com To: accessindia@accessindia.org.in Sent: Thursday, December 29, 2011 1:06 PM Subject: Re: [AI] Wanted - ideas for accessible gadgets. Hi, Indeed such a gadget for door identification would really help to independently enter the right gate at home, or in office too if allowed. This would be specially helpful when there are many adjacent doors/gates and there is no good accessible landmark or clue to identify our door/gate. GPS does not work with such precision. 1. Perhaps, I would suggest the portable part that one would carry could indicate with sound or vibration or both, rather then the one which is installed on the door beeping and letting everyone around know that I have reached. Smile! 2. Also it would be useful to design in a way that if more than one person visit the place, more such portable parts could be configured with a particular installed piece. Or, the system uses a single protocol, so that if I have the portable one, and I visit a friend or an organisation which has installed this device on their gate, it can direct me. 3. Developing the wish list further, could it be possible that the portable part gives the first indication when I am say 50 metres away from the door, and then it keeps announcing the remaining distance in feet/metres as I approach it. Or it could beep faster as I approach. 4. If this vibrates as well, would be useful to deaf-blind people too. As I think more, I am wondering - Doesn't such a product/technology already
Re: [AI] Wanted - ideas for accessible gadgets.
hello, sometime back there use to be one good publication by national association for the blind, lui braille memorial research centre, mumbai called guide of aids and appliances for the blind witch comprised of such many devices witch are available in open market and can also be used by vi persons in their daily life with more comfort and ease. don't know any updated publication has been undertaken by them or not. one can contact on 022-23726748 for more information. thanks, mukesh. On 1/1/12, Rahul Bajaj rahul.bajaj10...@gmail.com wrote: There are so many devices that are available for blind and VI people in the market. But many of us don't even know that the devices that we are looking for already exist. I wish we had a complete and comprehensive list of all the devices that are available. On 01/01/2012, Rahul Bajaj rahul.bajaj10...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, This really sounds very promising! The remote would be really very, very useful. I think that another thing that can be considered is a device which can be used for face recognition. For example, if one takes a person's photo, then that photo can be stored in the device's data with that person's name. So, the user of that device will then be able to identify the other person's face just by taking his photo. The device will be able to recall the stored data and tell its user the name of the person in the photo. Does something like this already exist? On 01/01/2012, m.chandrashekar chandru...@gmail.com wrote: hai dear prashant, I wish you happy new year 2012, really this is great idea with less expensive. I really appritiate your idea and effort in this direction. thank you and all the best in future innovation. with best regards m.chandru - Original Message - From: Prashant Ranjan Verma pr_ve...@hotmail.com To: accessindia@accessindia.org.in Sent: Thursday, December 29, 2011 9:29 PM Subject: Re: [AI] Wanted - ideas for accessible gadgets. I have informed at various forums that we are using a makeshift solution which has served us well. One can easily get cordless Call bell also known as wireless door bell in the market for as low as Rs. 200. It consists of a unit that is plugged into electricity and hung up on the wall. It has a small remote control with AA batteries that can ring this bel easily from 50 to 100 meters. I have installed the bell on the front of our building and my wife who is totally blind always carries the remote with her. At times when she is coming home alone she uses the remote to ring the bell outside our building and is able to locate and enter it using the sound clues. Our neighbours initially did ask why are you installing the door bell outside the house but now they understand and are amused to see the system working. One can buy several sets of the same brand and then install the door bell at various places. The same remote will be able to ring them. I have been using this system for more than five years now. Prashant -Original Message- From: accessindia-boun...@accessindia.org.in [mailto:accessindia-boun...@accessindia.org.in] On Behalf Of Dinesh Kaushal Sent: 29 December 2011 19:41 To: accessindia@accessindia.org.in Subject: Re: [AI] Wanted - ideas for accessible gadgets. Similar device is available though at very high price. The device is called SoundPost, and price is $545 if you buy one handset and 2 base stations. One base station is for $195 and 1 handset is for $175. For more information look at Povidi's website. http://www.povidi.com/ -Original Message- From: accessindia-boun...@accessindia.org.in [mailto:accessindia-boun...@accessindia.org.in] On Behalf Of George Abraham Sent: 29 December 2011 5:08 PM To: accessindia@accessindia.org.in Subject: Re: [AI] Wanted - ideas for accessible gadgets. This perhaps could be linked with the GPS and be operated vide our mobile phones. - Original Message - From: Pranay Gadodia pranaygado...@gmail.com To: accessindia@accessindia.org.in Sent: Thursday, December 29, 2011 1:06 PM Subject: Re: [AI] Wanted - ideas for accessible gadgets. Hi, Indeed such a gadget for door identification would really help to independently enter the right gate at home, or in office too if allowed. This would be specially helpful when there are many adjacent doors/gates and there is no good accessible landmark or clue to identify our door/gate. GPS does not work with such precision. 1. Perhaps, I would suggest the portable part that one would carry could indicate with sound or vibration or both, rather then the one which is installed on the door beeping and letting everyone around know that I have reached. Smile! 2. Also it would be useful to design in a way that if more than one person visit the place, more such portable parts could be configured with a particular installed piece. Or, the system uses a single protocol, so that if I have
Re: [AI] Wanted - ideas for accessible gadgets.
hai dear prashant, I wish you happy new year 2012, really this is great idea with less expensive. I really appritiate your idea and effort in this direction. thank you and all the best in future innovation. with best regards m.chandru - Original Message - From: Prashant Ranjan Verma pr_ve...@hotmail.com To: accessindia@accessindia.org.in Sent: Thursday, December 29, 2011 9:29 PM Subject: Re: [AI] Wanted - ideas for accessible gadgets. I have informed at various forums that we are using a makeshift solution which has served us well. One can easily get cordless Call bell also known as wireless door bell in the market for as low as Rs. 200. It consists of a unit that is plugged into electricity and hung up on the wall. It has a small remote control with AA batteries that can ring this bel easily from 50 to 100 meters. I have installed the bell on the front of our building and my wife who is totally blind always carries the remote with her. At times when she is coming home alone she uses the remote to ring the bell outside our building and is able to locate and enter it using the sound clues. Our neighbours initially did ask why are you installing the door bell outside the house but now they understand and are amused to see the system working. One can buy several sets of the same brand and then install the door bell at various places. The same remote will be able to ring them. I have been using this system for more than five years now. Prashant -Original Message- From: accessindia-boun...@accessindia.org.in [mailto:accessindia-boun...@accessindia.org.in] On Behalf Of Dinesh Kaushal Sent: 29 December 2011 19:41 To: accessindia@accessindia.org.in Subject: Re: [AI] Wanted - ideas for accessible gadgets. Similar device is available though at very high price. The device is called SoundPost, and price is $545 if you buy one handset and 2 base stations. One base station is for $195 and 1 handset is for $175. For more information look at Povidi's website. http://www.povidi.com/ -Original Message- From: accessindia-boun...@accessindia.org.in [mailto:accessindia-boun...@accessindia.org.in] On Behalf Of George Abraham Sent: 29 December 2011 5:08 PM To: accessindia@accessindia.org.in Subject: Re: [AI] Wanted - ideas for accessible gadgets. This perhaps could be linked with the GPS and be operated vide our mobile phones. - Original Message - From: Pranay Gadodia pranaygado...@gmail.com To: accessindia@accessindia.org.in Sent: Thursday, December 29, 2011 1:06 PM Subject: Re: [AI] Wanted - ideas for accessible gadgets. Hi, Indeed such a gadget for door identification would really help to independently enter the right gate at home, or in office too if allowed. This would be specially helpful when there are many adjacent doors/gates and there is no good accessible landmark or clue to identify our door/gate. GPS does not work with such precision. 1. Perhaps, I would suggest the portable part that one would carry could indicate with sound or vibration or both, rather then the one which is installed on the door beeping and letting everyone around know that I have reached. Smile! 2. Also it would be useful to design in a way that if more than one person visit the place, more such portable parts could be configured with a particular installed piece. Or, the system uses a single protocol, so that if I have the portable one, and I visit a friend or an organisation which has installed this device on their gate, it can direct me. 3. Developing the wish list further, could it be possible that the portable part gives the first indication when I am say 50 metres away from the door, and then it keeps announcing the remaining distance in feet/metres as I approach it. Or it could beep faster as I approach. 4. If this vibrates as well, would be useful to deaf-blind people too. As I think more, I am wondering - Doesn't such a product/technology already exists? thanks, Pranay. - Original Message - From: Geetha Shamanna gee...@millernorbert.de To: accessindia@accessindia.org.in Sent: Thursday, December 29, 2011 12:43 AM Subject: Re: [AI] Wanted - ideas for accessible gadgets. Hi Vamshi, There used to be such a device at All India Confederation of the Blind in Delhi some years ago. I have no idea what the device was called, but it was battery-operated and Was attached to the gate. The device beeped continuously, orienting blind individuals trying to make their way to the institute. Perhaps a similar version of the device is available with a remote attachment? Please contact Mr. J. L. Kaul of the AICB for further details about the device. Geetha -Original Message- From: accessindia-boun...@accessindia.org.in [mailto:accessindia-boun...@accessindia.org.in] On Behalf Of Vamshi. G Sent: 28 December 2011 13:00 To: accessindia@accessindia.org.in Subject: Re: [AI] Wanted - ideas for accessible gadgets. Hi Sudhir, Excellent initiative. I'd like
Re: [AI] Wanted - ideas for accessible gadgets.
I have informed at various forums that we are using a makeshift solution which has served us well. One can easily get cordless Call bell also known as wireless door bell in the market for as low as Rs. 200. It consists of a unit that is plugged into electricity and hung up on the wall. It has a small remote control with AA batteries that can ring this bel easily from 50 to 100 meters. I have installed the bell on the front of our building and my wife who is totally blind always carries the remote with her. At times when she is coming home alone she uses the remote to ring the bell outside our building and is able to locate and enter it using the sound clues. Our neighbours initially did ask why are you installing the door bell outside the house but now they understand and are amused to see the system working. One can buy several sets of the same brand and then install the door bell at various places. The same remote will be able to ring them. I have been using this system for more than five years now. Prashant -Original Message- From: accessindia-boun...@accessindia.org.in [mailto:accessindia-boun...@accessindia.org.in] On Behalf Of Dinesh Kaushal Sent: 29 December 2011 19:41 To: accessindia@accessindia.org.in Subject: Re: [AI] Wanted - ideas for accessible gadgets. Similar device is available though at very high price. The device is called SoundPost, and price is $545 if you buy one handset and 2 base stations. One base station is for $195 and 1 handset is for $175. For more information look at Povidi's website. http://www.povidi.com/ -Original Message- From: accessindia-boun...@accessindia.org.in [mailto:accessindia-boun...@accessindia.org.in] On Behalf Of George Abraham Sent: 29 December 2011 5:08 PM To: accessindia@accessindia.org.in Subject: Re: [AI] Wanted - ideas for accessible gadgets. This perhaps could be linked with the GPS and be operated vide our mobile phones. - Original Message - From: Pranay Gadodia pranaygado...@gmail.com To: accessindia@accessindia.org.in Sent: Thursday, December 29, 2011 1:06 PM Subject: Re: [AI] Wanted - ideas for accessible gadgets. Hi, Indeed such a gadget for door identification would really help to independently enter the right gate at home, or in office too if allowed. This would be specially helpful when there are many adjacent doors/gates and there is no good accessible landmark or clue to identify our door/gate. GPS does not work with such precision. 1. Perhaps, I would suggest the portable part that one would carry could indicate with sound or vibration or both, rather then the one which is installed on the door beeping and letting everyone around know that I have reached. Smile! 2. Also it would be useful to design in a way that if more than one person visit the place, more such portable parts could be configured with a particular installed piece. Or, the system uses a single protocol, so that if I have the portable one, and I visit a friend or an organisation which has installed this device on their gate, it can direct me. 3. Developing the wish list further, could it be possible that the portable part gives the first indication when I am say 50 metres away from the door, and then it keeps announcing the remaining distance in feet/metres as I approach it. Or it could beep faster as I approach. 4. If this vibrates as well, would be useful to deaf-blind people too. As I think more, I am wondering - Doesn't such a product/technology already exists? thanks, Pranay. - Original Message - From: Geetha Shamanna gee...@millernorbert.de To: accessindia@accessindia.org.in Sent: Thursday, December 29, 2011 12:43 AM Subject: Re: [AI] Wanted - ideas for accessible gadgets. Hi Vamshi, There used to be such a device at All India Confederation of the Blind in Delhi some years ago. I have no idea what the device was called, but it was battery-operated and Was attached to the gate. The device beeped continuously, orienting blind individuals trying to make their way to the institute. Perhaps a similar version of the device is available with a remote attachment? Please contact Mr. J. L. Kaul of the AICB for further details about the device. Geetha -Original Message- From: accessindia-boun...@accessindia.org.in [mailto:accessindia-boun...@accessindia.org.in] On Behalf Of Vamshi. G Sent: 28 December 2011 13:00 To: accessindia@accessindia.org.in Subject: Re: [AI] Wanted - ideas for accessible gadgets. Hi Sudhir, Excellent initiative. I'd like to have something which gives a signal when I reach my home. We know there are remote controls for motor bikes by which motor bikes make sound when it is pressed. Similarly I will keep the remote pressed when I enter my street and there should be a sound when I reach my home. I request all to speak their ideas on the list so that there can be improvements to each other's thoughts. Besides, we can know if there is a solution already available which we aren't aware
Re: [AI] Wanted - ideas for accessible gadgets.
Similar device is available though at very high price. The device is called SoundPost, and price is $545 if you buy one handset and 2 base stations. One base station is for $195 and 1 handset is for $175. For more information look at Povidi's website. http://www.povidi.com/ -Original Message- From: accessindia-boun...@accessindia.org.in [mailto:accessindia-boun...@accessindia.org.in] On Behalf Of George Abraham Sent: 29 December 2011 5:08 PM To: accessindia@accessindia.org.in Subject: Re: [AI] Wanted - ideas for accessible gadgets. This perhaps could be linked with the GPS and be operated vide our mobile phones. - Original Message - From: Pranay Gadodia pranaygado...@gmail.com To: accessindia@accessindia.org.in Sent: Thursday, December 29, 2011 1:06 PM Subject: Re: [AI] Wanted - ideas for accessible gadgets. Hi, Indeed such a gadget for door identification would really help to independently enter the right gate at home, or in office too if allowed. This would be specially helpful when there are many adjacent doors/gates and there is no good accessible landmark or clue to identify our door/gate. GPS does not work with such precision. 1. Perhaps, I would suggest the portable part that one would carry could indicate with sound or vibration or both, rather then the one which is installed on the door beeping and letting everyone around know that I have reached. Smile! 2. Also it would be useful to design in a way that if more than one person visit the place, more such portable parts could be configured with a particular installed piece. Or, the system uses a single protocol, so that if I have the portable one, and I visit a friend or an organisation which has installed this device on their gate, it can direct me. 3. Developing the wish list further, could it be possible that the portable part gives the first indication when I am say 50 metres away from the door, and then it keeps announcing the remaining distance in feet/metres as I approach it. Or it could beep faster as I approach. 4. If this vibrates as well, would be useful to deaf-blind people too. As I think more, I am wondering - Doesn't such a product/technology already exists? thanks, Pranay. - Original Message - From: Geetha Shamanna gee...@millernorbert.de To: accessindia@accessindia.org.in Sent: Thursday, December 29, 2011 12:43 AM Subject: Re: [AI] Wanted - ideas for accessible gadgets. Hi Vamshi, There used to be such a device at All India Confederation of the Blind in Delhi some years ago. I have no idea what the device was called, but it was battery-operated and Was attached to the gate. The device beeped continuously, orienting blind individuals trying to make their way to the institute. Perhaps a similar version of the device is available with a remote attachment? Please contact Mr. J. L. Kaul of the AICB for further details about the device. Geetha -Original Message- From: accessindia-boun...@accessindia.org.in [mailto:accessindia-boun...@accessindia.org.in] On Behalf Of Vamshi. G Sent: 28 December 2011 13:00 To: accessindia@accessindia.org.in Subject: Re: [AI] Wanted - ideas for accessible gadgets. Hi Sudhir, Excellent initiative. I'd like to have something which gives a signal when I reach my home. We know there are remote controls for motor bikes by which motor bikes make sound when it is pressed. Similarly I will keep the remote pressed when I enter my street and there should be a sound when I reach my home. I request all to speak their ideas on the list so that there can be improvements to each other's thoughts. Besides, we can know if there is a solution already available which we aren't aware of. On 12/28/11, Pranav Lal pranav@gmail.com wrote: Sudhir, Get your friend in touch with the XRCVC and take things from there. For me, I need an accessible console for my elliptical trainer. Pranav Search for old postings at: http://www.mail-archive.com/accessindia@accessindia.org.in/ To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org .in -- G. Vamshi PH Res : +91 877-2243861 Mobile: +91 9949349497 E-mail ID: gvamsh...@gmail.com Skype: gvamshi81 www.retinaindia.org From darkness unto light Search for old postings at: http://www.mail-archive.com/accessindia@accessindia.org.in/ To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in Search for old postings at: http://www.mail-archive.com/accessindia@accessindia.org.in/ To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in with the subject
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such thing can be done by using blue tooth technology - Original Message - From: George Abraham geo...@eyeway.org To: accessindia@accessindia.org.in Sent: Thursday, December 29, 2011 5:07 PM Subject: Re: [AI] Wanted - ideas for accessible gadgets. This perhaps could be linked with the GPS and be operated vide our mobile phones. - Original Message - From: Pranay Gadodia pranaygado...@gmail.com To: accessindia@accessindia.org.in Sent: Thursday, December 29, 2011 1:06 PM Subject: Re: [AI] Wanted - ideas for accessible gadgets. Hi, Indeed such a gadget for door identification would really help to independently enter the right gate at home, or in office too if allowed. This would be specially helpful when there are many adjacent doors/gates and there is no good accessible landmark or clue to identify our door/gate. GPS does not work with such precision. 1. Perhaps, I would suggest the portable part that one would carry could indicate with sound or vibration or both, rather then the one which is installed on the door beeping and letting everyone around know that I have reached. Smile! 2. Also it would be useful to design in a way that if more than one person visit the place, more such portable parts could be configured with a particular installed piece. Or, the system uses a single protocol, so that if I have the portable one, and I visit a friend or an organisation which has installed this device on their gate, it can direct me. 3. Developing the wish list further, could it be possible that the portable part gives the first indication when I am say 50 metres away from the door, and then it keeps announcing the remaining distance in feet/metres as I approach it. Or it could beep faster as I approach. 4. If this vibrates as well, would be useful to deaf-blind people too. As I think more, I am wondering - Doesn't such a product/technology already exists? thanks, Pranay. - Original Message - From: Geetha Shamanna gee...@millernorbert.de To: accessindia@accessindia.org.in Sent: Thursday, December 29, 2011 12:43 AM Subject: Re: [AI] Wanted - ideas for accessible gadgets. Hi Vamshi, There used to be such a device at All India Confederation of the Blind in Delhi some years ago. I have no idea what the device was called, but it was battery-operated and Was attached to the gate. The device beeped continuously, orienting blind individuals trying to make their way to the institute. Perhaps a similar version of the device is available with a remote attachment? Please contact Mr. J. L. Kaul of the AICB for further details about the device. Geetha -Original Message- From: accessindia-boun...@accessindia.org.in [mailto:accessindia-boun...@accessindia.org.in] On Behalf Of Vamshi. G Sent: 28 December 2011 13:00 To: accessindia@accessindia.org.in Subject: Re: [AI] Wanted - ideas for accessible gadgets. Hi Sudhir, Excellent initiative. I'd like to have something which gives a signal when I reach my home. We know there are remote controls for motor bikes by which motor bikes make sound when it is pressed. Similarly I will keep the remote pressed when I enter my street and there should be a sound when I reach my home. I request all to speak their ideas on the list so that there can be improvements to each other's thoughts. Besides, we can know if there is a solution already available which we aren't aware of. On 12/28/11, Pranav Lal pranav@gmail.com wrote: Sudhir, Get your friend in touch with the XRCVC and take things from there. For me, I need an accessible console for my elliptical trainer. Pranav Search for old postings at: http://www.mail-archive.com/accessindia@accessindia.org.in/ To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org .in -- G. Vamshi PH Res : +91 877-2243861 Mobile: +91 9949349497 E-mail ID: gvamsh...@gmail.com Skype: gvamshi81 www.retinaindia.org From darkness unto light Search for old postings at: http://www.mail-archive.com/accessindia@accessindia.org.in/ To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in Search for old postings at: http://www.mail-archive.com/accessindia@accessindia.org.in/ To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in Search for old postings at: http://www.mail-archive.com/accessindia@accessindia.org.in
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hi friend. i think that the tv remorde should be bluetooth so that the direction and obsticals between the remote and the device should not be major hindrence. and allows the user to use the device smoothly. also the remote should be voice enable. - Original Message - From: Geetha Shamanna gee...@millernorbert.de To: accessindia@accessindia.org.in Sent: Thursday, December 29, 2011 12:43 AM Subject: Re: [AI] Wanted - ideas for accessible gadgets. Hi Vamshi, There used to be such a device at All India Confederation of the Blind in Delhi some years ago. I have no idea what the device was called, but it was battery-operated and Was attached to the gate. The device beeped continuously, orienting blind individuals trying to make their way to the institute. Perhaps a similar version of the device is available with a remote attachment? Please contact Mr. J. L. Kaul of the AICB for further details about the device. Geetha -Original Message- From: accessindia-boun...@accessindia.org.in [mailto:accessindia-boun...@accessindia.org.in] On Behalf Of Vamshi. G Sent: 28 December 2011 13:00 To: accessindia@accessindia.org.in Subject: Re: [AI] Wanted - ideas for accessible gadgets. Hi Sudhir, Excellent initiative. I'd like to have something which gives a signal when I reach my home. We know there are remote controls for motor bikes by which motor bikes make sound when it is pressed. Similarly I will keep the remote pressed when I enter my street and there should be a sound when I reach my home. I request all to speak their ideas on the list so that there can be improvements to each other's thoughts. Besides, we can know if there is a solution already available which we aren't aware of. On 12/28/11, Pranav Lal pranav@gmail.com wrote: Sudhir, Get your friend in touch with the XRCVC and take things from there. For me, I need an accessible console for my elliptical trainer. Pranav Search for old postings at: http://www.mail-archive.com/accessindia@accessindia.org.in/ To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org .in -- G. Vamshi PH Res : +91 877-2243861 Mobile: +91 9949349497 E-mail ID: gvamsh...@gmail.com Skype: gvamshi81 www.retinaindia.org From darkness unto light Search for old postings at: http://www.mail-archive.com/accessindia@accessindia.org.in/ To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in Search for old postings at: http://www.mail-archive.com/accessindia@accessindia.org.in/ To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in Search for old postings at: http://www.mail-archive.com/accessindia@accessindia.org.in/ To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in
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This perhaps could be linked with the GPS and be operated vide our mobile phones. - Original Message - From: Pranay Gadodia pranaygado...@gmail.com To: accessindia@accessindia.org.in Sent: Thursday, December 29, 2011 1:06 PM Subject: Re: [AI] Wanted - ideas for accessible gadgets. Hi, Indeed such a gadget for door identification would really help to independently enter the right gate at home, or in office too if allowed. This would be specially helpful when there are many adjacent doors/gates and there is no good accessible landmark or clue to identify our door/gate. GPS does not work with such precision. 1. Perhaps, I would suggest the portable part that one would carry could indicate with sound or vibration or both, rather then the one which is installed on the door beeping and letting everyone around know that I have reached. Smile! 2. Also it would be useful to design in a way that if more than one person visit the place, more such portable parts could be configured with a particular installed piece. Or, the system uses a single protocol, so that if I have the portable one, and I visit a friend or an organisation which has installed this device on their gate, it can direct me. 3. Developing the wish list further, could it be possible that the portable part gives the first indication when I am say 50 metres away from the door, and then it keeps announcing the remaining distance in feet/metres as I approach it. Or it could beep faster as I approach. 4. If this vibrates as well, would be useful to deaf-blind people too. As I think more, I am wondering - Doesn't such a product/technology already exists? thanks, Pranay. - Original Message - From: Geetha Shamanna gee...@millernorbert.de To: accessindia@accessindia.org.in Sent: Thursday, December 29, 2011 12:43 AM Subject: Re: [AI] Wanted - ideas for accessible gadgets. Hi Vamshi, There used to be such a device at All India Confederation of the Blind in Delhi some years ago. I have no idea what the device was called, but it was battery-operated and Was attached to the gate. The device beeped continuously, orienting blind individuals trying to make their way to the institute. Perhaps a similar version of the device is available with a remote attachment? Please contact Mr. J. L. Kaul of the AICB for further details about the device. Geetha -Original Message- From: accessindia-boun...@accessindia.org.in [mailto:accessindia-boun...@accessindia.org.in] On Behalf Of Vamshi. G Sent: 28 December 2011 13:00 To: accessindia@accessindia.org.in Subject: Re: [AI] Wanted - ideas for accessible gadgets. Hi Sudhir, Excellent initiative. I'd like to have something which gives a signal when I reach my home. We know there are remote controls for motor bikes by which motor bikes make sound when it is pressed. Similarly I will keep the remote pressed when I enter my street and there should be a sound when I reach my home. I request all to speak their ideas on the list so that there can be improvements to each other's thoughts. Besides, we can know if there is a solution already available which we aren't aware of. On 12/28/11, Pranav Lal pranav@gmail.com wrote: Sudhir, Get your friend in touch with the XRCVC and take things from there. For me, I need an accessible console for my elliptical trainer. Pranav Search for old postings at: http://www.mail-archive.com/accessindia@accessindia.org.in/ To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org .in -- G. Vamshi PH Res : +91 877-2243861 Mobile: +91 9949349497 E-mail ID: gvamsh...@gmail.com Skype: gvamshi81 www.retinaindia.org From darkness unto light Search for old postings at: http://www.mail-archive.com/accessindia@accessindia.org.in/ To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in Search for old postings at: http://www.mail-archive.com/accessindia@accessindia.org.in/ To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in Search for old postings at: http://www.mail-archive.com/accessindia@accessindia.org.in/ To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo
Re: [AI] Wanted - ideas for accessible gadgets.
excellent idea! one of my friend use tailor frame and types to note telephone and mobile numbers. later he took note of them in Braille. his income is very low and can not maintain high value cellphones. - Original Message - From: Prashant Ranjan Verma pr_ve...@hotmail.com To: accessindia@accessindia.org.in Sent: Thursday, December 29, 2011 9:29 PM Subject: Re: [AI] Wanted - ideas for accessible gadgets. I have informed at various forums that we are using a makeshift solution which has served us well. One can easily get cordless Call bell also known as wireless door bell in the market for as low as Rs. 200. It consists of a unit that is plugged into electricity and hung up on the wall. It has a small remote control with AA batteries that can ring this bel easily from 50 to 100 meters. I have installed the bell on the front of our building and my wife who is totally blind always carries the remote with her. At times when she is coming home alone she uses the remote to ring the bell outside our building and is able to locate and enter it using the sound clues. Our neighbours initially did ask why are you installing the door bell outside the house but now they understand and are amused to see the system working. One can buy several sets of the same brand and then install the door bell at various places. The same remote will be able to ring them. I have been using this system for more than five years now. Prashant -Original Message- From: accessindia-boun...@accessindia.org.in [mailto:accessindia-boun...@accessindia.org.in] On Behalf Of Dinesh Kaushal Sent: 29 December 2011 19:41 To: accessindia@accessindia.org.in Subject: Re: [AI] Wanted - ideas for accessible gadgets. Similar device is available though at very high price. The device is called SoundPost, and price is $545 if you buy one handset and 2 base stations. One base station is for $195 and 1 handset is for $175. For more information look at Povidi's website. http://www.povidi.com/ -Original Message- From: accessindia-boun...@accessindia.org.in [mailto:accessindia-boun...@accessindia.org.in] On Behalf Of George Abraham Sent: 29 December 2011 5:08 PM To: accessindia@accessindia.org.in Subject: Re: [AI] Wanted - ideas for accessible gadgets. This perhaps could be linked with the GPS and be operated vide our mobile phones. - Original Message - From: Pranay Gadodia pranaygado...@gmail.com To: accessindia@accessindia.org.in Sent: Thursday, December 29, 2011 1:06 PM Subject: Re: [AI] Wanted - ideas for accessible gadgets. Hi, Indeed such a gadget for door identification would really help to independently enter the right gate at home, or in office too if allowed. This would be specially helpful when there are many adjacent doors/gates and there is no good accessible landmark or clue to identify our door/gate. GPS does not work with such precision. 1. Perhaps, I would suggest the portable part that one would carry could indicate with sound or vibration or both, rather then the one which is installed on the door beeping and letting everyone around know that I have reached. Smile! 2. Also it would be useful to design in a way that if more than one person visit the place, more such portable parts could be configured with a particular installed piece. Or, the system uses a single protocol, so that if I have the portable one, and I visit a friend or an organisation which has installed this device on their gate, it can direct me. 3. Developing the wish list further, could it be possible that the portable part gives the first indication when I am say 50 metres away from the door, and then it keeps announcing the remaining distance in feet/metres as I approach it. Or it could beep faster as I approach. 4. If this vibrates as well, would be useful to deaf-blind people too. As I think more, I am wondering - Doesn't such a product/technology already exists? thanks, Pranay. - Original Message - From: Geetha Shamanna gee...@millernorbert.de To: accessindia@accessindia.org.in Sent: Thursday, December 29, 2011 12:43 AM Subject: Re: [AI] Wanted - ideas for accessible gadgets. Hi Vamshi, There used to be such a device at All India Confederation of the Blind in Delhi some years ago. I have no idea what the device was called, but it was battery-operated and Was attached to the gate. The device beeped continuously, orienting blind individuals trying to make their way to the institute. Perhaps a similar version of the device is available with a remote attachment? Please contact Mr. J. L. Kaul of the AICB for further details about the device. Geetha -Original Message- From: accessindia-boun...@accessindia.org.in [mailto:accessindia-boun...@accessindia.org.in] On Behalf Of Vamshi. G Sent: 28 December 2011 13:00 To: accessindia@accessindia.org.in Subject: Re: [AI] Wanted - ideas for accessible gadgets. Hi Sudhir, Excellent initiative. I'd like to have something which gives
Re: [AI] Wanted - ideas for accessible gadgets.
I think Abacus is also very useful gadget to types/note telephone and mobile numbers like Taylor Frame. Sujit Karmakar +9007326573 - Original Message - From: bhawani shankar verma bsvermad...@gmail.com To: accessindia@accessindia.org.in Sent: Friday, December 30, 2011 7:24 AM Subject: Re: [AI] Wanted - ideas for accessible gadgets. excellent idea! one of my friend use tailor frame and types to note telephone and mobile numbers. later he took note of them in Braille. his income is very low and can not maintain high value cellphones. - Original Message - From: Prashant Ranjan Verma pr_ve...@hotmail.com To: accessindia@accessindia.org.in Sent: Thursday, December 29, 2011 9:29 PM Subject: Re: [AI] Wanted - ideas for accessible gadgets. I have informed at various forums that we are using a makeshift solution which has served us well. One can easily get cordless Call bell also known as wireless door bell in the market for as low as Rs. 200. It consists of a unit that is plugged into electricity and hung up on the wall. It has a small remote control with AA batteries that can ring this bel easily from 50 to 100 meters. I have installed the bell on the front of our building and my wife who is totally blind always carries the remote with her. At times when she is coming home alone she uses the remote to ring the bell outside our building and is able to locate and enter it using the sound clues. Our neighbours initially did ask why are you installing the door bell outside the house but now they understand and are amused to see the system working. One can buy several sets of the same brand and then install the door bell at various places. The same remote will be able to ring them. I have been using this system for more than five years now. Prashant -Original Message- From: accessindia-boun...@accessindia.org.in [mailto:accessindia-boun...@accessindia.org.in] On Behalf Of Dinesh Kaushal Sent: 29 December 2011 19:41 To: accessindia@accessindia.org.in Subject: Re: [AI] Wanted - ideas for accessible gadgets. Similar device is available though at very high price. The device is called SoundPost, and price is $545 if you buy one handset and 2 base stations. One base station is for $195 and 1 handset is for $175. For more information look at Povidi's website. http://www.povidi.com/ -Original Message- From: accessindia-boun...@accessindia.org.in [mailto:accessindia-boun...@accessindia.org.in] On Behalf Of George Abraham Sent: 29 December 2011 5:08 PM To: accessindia@accessindia.org.in Subject: Re: [AI] Wanted - ideas for accessible gadgets. This perhaps could be linked with the GPS and be operated vide our mobile phones. - Original Message - From: Pranay Gadodia pranaygado...@gmail.com To: accessindia@accessindia.org.in Sent: Thursday, December 29, 2011 1:06 PM Subject: Re: [AI] Wanted - ideas for accessible gadgets. Hi, Indeed such a gadget for door identification would really help to independently enter the right gate at home, or in office too if allowed. This would be specially helpful when there are many adjacent doors/gates and there is no good accessible landmark or clue to identify our door/gate. GPS does not work with such precision. 1. Perhaps, I would suggest the portable part that one would carry could indicate with sound or vibration or both, rather then the one which is installed on the door beeping and letting everyone around know that I have reached. Smile! 2. Also it would be useful to design in a way that if more than one person visit the place, more such portable parts could be configured with a particular installed piece. Or, the system uses a single protocol, so that if I have the portable one, and I visit a friend or an organisation which has installed this device on their gate, it can direct me. 3. Developing the wish list further, could it be possible that the portable part gives the first indication when I am say 50 metres away from the door, and then it keeps announcing the remaining distance in feet/metres as I approach it. Or it could beep faster as I approach. 4. If this vibrates as well, would be useful to deaf-blind people too. As I think more, I am wondering - Doesn't such a product/technology already exists? thanks, Pranay. - Original Message - From: Geetha Shamanna gee...@millernorbert.de To: accessindia@accessindia.org.in Sent: Thursday, December 29, 2011 12:43 AM Subject: Re: [AI] Wanted - ideas for accessible gadgets. Hi Vamshi, There used to be such a device at All India Confederation of the Blind in Delhi some years ago. I have no idea what the device was called, but it was battery-operated and Was attached to the gate. The device beeped continuously, orienting blind individuals trying to make their way to the institute. Perhaps a similar version of the device is available with a remote attachment? Please contact Mr. J. L. Kaul of the AICB for further details about the device. Geetha -Original
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On 12/30/11, Sujit Karmakar karmakar.suj...@gmail.com wrote: I think Abacus is also very useful gadget to types/note telephone and mobile numbers like Taylor Frame. Sujit Karmakar +9007326573 - Original Message - From: bhawani shankar verma bsvermad...@gmail.com To: accessindia@accessindia.org.in Sent: Friday, December 30, 2011 7:24 AM Subject: Re: [AI] Wanted - ideas for accessible gadgets. excellent idea! one of my friend use tailor frame and types to note telephone and mobile numbers. later he took note of them in Braille. his income is very low and can not maintain high value cellphones. - Original Message - From: Prashant Ranjan Verma pr_ve...@hotmail.com To: accessindia@accessindia.org.in Sent: Thursday, December 29, 2011 9:29 PM Subject: Re: [AI] Wanted - ideas for accessible gadgets. I have informed at various forums that we are using a makeshift solution which has served us well. One can easily get cordless Call bell also known as wireless door bell in the market for as low as Rs. 200. It consists of a unit that is plugged into electricity and hung up on the wall. It has a small remote control with AA batteries that can ring this bel easily from 50 to 100 meters. I have installed the bell on the front of our building and my wife who is totally blind always carries the remote with her. At times when she is coming home alone she uses the remote to ring the bell outside our building and is able to locate and enter it using the sound clues. Our neighbours initially did ask why are you installing the door bell outside the house but now they understand and are amused to see the system working. One can buy several sets of the same brand and then install the door bell at various places. The same remote will be able to ring them. I have been using this system for more than five years now. Prashant -Original Message- From: accessindia-boun...@accessindia.org.in [mailto:accessindia-boun...@accessindia.org.in] On Behalf Of Dinesh Kaushal Sent: 29 December 2011 19:41 To: accessindia@accessindia.org.in Subject: Re: [AI] Wanted - ideas for accessible gadgets. Similar device is available though at very high price. The device is called SoundPost, and price is $545 if you buy one handset and 2 base stations. One base station is for $195 and 1 handset is for $175. For more information look at Povidi's website. http://www.povidi.com/ -Original Message- From: accessindia-boun...@accessindia.org.in [mailto:accessindia-boun...@accessindia.org.in] On Behalf Of George Abraham Sent: 29 December 2011 5:08 PM To: accessindia@accessindia.org.in Subject: Re: [AI] Wanted - ideas for accessible gadgets. This perhaps could be linked with the GPS and be operated vide our mobile phones. - Original Message - From: Pranay Gadodia pranaygado...@gmail.com To: accessindia@accessindia.org.in Sent: Thursday, December 29, 2011 1:06 PM Subject: Re: [AI] Wanted - ideas for accessible gadgets. Hi, Indeed such a gadget for door identification would really help to independently enter the right gate at home, or in office too if allowed. This would be specially helpful when there are many adjacent doors/gates and there is no good accessible landmark or clue to identify our door/gate. GPS does not work with such precision. 1. Perhaps, I would suggest the portable part that one would carry could indicate with sound or vibration or both, rather then the one which is installed on the door beeping and letting everyone around know that I have reached. Smile! 2. Also it would be useful to design in a way that if more than one person visit the place, more such portable parts could be configured with a particular installed piece. Or, the system uses a single protocol, so that if I have the portable one, and I visit a friend or an organisation which has installed this device on their gate, it can direct me. 3. Developing the wish list further, could it be possible that the portable part gives the first indication when I am say 50 metres away from the door, and then it keeps announcing the remaining distance in feet/metres as I approach it. Or it could beep faster as I approach. 4. If this vibrates as well, would be useful to deaf-blind people too. As I think more, I am wondering - Doesn't such a product/technology already exists? thanks, Pranay. - Original Message - From: Geetha Shamanna gee...@millernorbert.de To: accessindia@accessindia.org.in Sent: Thursday, December 29, 2011 12:43 AM Subject: Re: [AI] Wanted - ideas for accessible gadgets. Hi Vamshi, There used to be such a device at All India Confederation of the Blind in Delhi some years ago. I have no idea what the device was called, but it was battery-operated and Was attached to the gate. The device beeped continuously, orienting blind individuals trying to make their way to the institute. Perhaps a similar
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Sudhir, Get your friend in touch with the XRCVC and take things from there. For me, I need an accessible console for my elliptical trainer. Pranav Search for old postings at: http://www.mail-archive.com/accessindia@accessindia.org.in/ To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in
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Hi Sudhir, Excellent initiative. I'd like to have something which gives a signal when I reach my home. We know there are remote controls for motor bikes by which motor bikes make sound when it is pressed. Similarly I will keep the remote pressed when I enter my street and there should be a sound when I reach my home. I request all to speak their ideas on the list so that there can be improvements to each other's thoughts. Besides, we can know if there is a solution already available which we aren't aware of. On 12/28/11, Pranav Lal pranav@gmail.com wrote: Sudhir, Get your friend in touch with the XRCVC and take things from there. For me, I need an accessible console for my elliptical trainer. Pranav Search for old postings at: http://www.mail-archive.com/accessindia@accessindia.org.in/ To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in -- G. Vamshi PH Res : +91 877-2243861 Mobile: +91 9949349497 E-mail ID: gvamsh...@gmail.com Skype: gvamshi81 www.retinaindia.org From darkness unto light Search for old postings at: http://www.mail-archive.com/accessindia@accessindia.org.in/ To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in
Re: [AI] Wanted - ideas for accessible gadgets.
Hi Vamshi, There used to be such a device at All India Confederation of the Blind in Delhi some years ago. I have no idea what the device was called, but it was battery-operated and Was attached to the gate. The device beeped continuously, orienting blind individuals trying to make their way to the institute. Perhaps a similar version of the device is available with a remote attachment? Please contact Mr. J. L. Kaul of the AICB for further details about the device. Geetha -Original Message- From: accessindia-boun...@accessindia.org.in [mailto:accessindia-boun...@accessindia.org.in] On Behalf Of Vamshi. G Sent: 28 December 2011 13:00 To: accessindia@accessindia.org.in Subject: Re: [AI] Wanted - ideas for accessible gadgets. Hi Sudhir, Excellent initiative. I'd like to have something which gives a signal when I reach my home. We know there are remote controls for motor bikes by which motor bikes make sound when it is pressed. Similarly I will keep the remote pressed when I enter my street and there should be a sound when I reach my home. I request all to speak their ideas on the list so that there can be improvements to each other's thoughts. Besides, we can know if there is a solution already available which we aren't aware of. On 12/28/11, Pranav Lal pranav@gmail.com wrote: Sudhir, Get your friend in touch with the XRCVC and take things from there. For me, I need an accessible console for my elliptical trainer. Pranav Search for old postings at: http://www.mail-archive.com/accessindia@accessindia.org.in/ To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org .in -- G. Vamshi PH Res : +91 877-2243861 Mobile: +91 9949349497 E-mail ID: gvamsh...@gmail.com Skype: gvamshi81 www.retinaindia.org From darkness unto light Search for old postings at: http://www.mail-archive.com/accessindia@accessindia.org.in/ To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in Search for old postings at: http://www.mail-archive.com/accessindia@accessindia.org.in/ To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in
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I saw a similar instument in an n.g.o in chennai. I dont know its cost let me chdck. -original message- Subject: Re: [AI] Wanted - ideas for accessible gadgets. From: Vamshi. G gvamsh...@gmail.com Date: 28.12.2011 18:31 Hi Sudhir, Excellent initiative. I'd like to have something which gives a signal when I reach my home. We know there are remote controls for motor bikes by which motor bikes make sound when it is pressed. Similarly I will keep the remote pressed when I enter my street and there should be a sound when I reach my home. I request all to speak their ideas on the list so that there can be improvements to each other's thoughts. Besides, we can know if there is a solution already available which we aren't aware of. On 12/28/11, Pranav Lal pranav@gmail.com wrote: Sudhir, Get your friend in touch with the XRCVC and take things from there. For me, I need an accessible console for my elliptical trainer. Pranav Search for old postings at: http://www.mail-archive.com/accessindia@accessindia.org.in/ To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in -- G. Vamshi PH Res : +91 877-2243861 Mobile: +91 9949349497 E-mail ID: gvamsh...@gmail.com Skype: gvamshi81 www.retinaindia.org From darkness unto light Search for old postings at: http://www.mail-archive.com/accessindia@accessindia.org.in/ To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in Search for old postings at: http://www.mail-archive.com/accessindia@accessindia.org.in/ To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in
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Hi, Indeed such a gadget for door identification would really help to independently enter the right gate at home, or in office too if allowed. This would be specially helpful when there are many adjacent doors/gates and there is no good accessible landmark or clue to identify our door/gate. GPS does not work with such precision. 1. Perhaps, I would suggest the portable part that one would carry could indicate with sound or vibration or both, rather then the one which is installed on the door beeping and letting everyone around know that I have reached. Smile! 2. Also it would be useful to design in a way that if more than one person visit the place, more such portable parts could be configured with a particular installed piece. Or, the system uses a single protocol, so that if I have the portable one, and I visit a friend or an organisation which has installed this device on their gate, it can direct me. 3. Developing the wish list further, could it be possible that the portable part gives the first indication when I am say 50 metres away from the door, and then it keeps announcing the remaining distance in feet/metres as I approach it. Or it could beep faster as I approach. 4. If this vibrates as well, would be useful to deaf-blind people too. As I think more, I am wondering - Doesn't such a product/technology already exists? thanks, Pranay. - Original Message - From: Geetha Shamanna gee...@millernorbert.de To: accessindia@accessindia.org.in Sent: Thursday, December 29, 2011 12:43 AM Subject: Re: [AI] Wanted - ideas for accessible gadgets. Hi Vamshi, There used to be such a device at All India Confederation of the Blind in Delhi some years ago. I have no idea what the device was called, but it was battery-operated and Was attached to the gate. The device beeped continuously, orienting blind individuals trying to make their way to the institute. Perhaps a similar version of the device is available with a remote attachment? Please contact Mr. J. L. Kaul of the AICB for further details about the device. Geetha -Original Message- From: accessindia-boun...@accessindia.org.in [mailto:accessindia-boun...@accessindia.org.in] On Behalf Of Vamshi. G Sent: 28 December 2011 13:00 To: accessindia@accessindia.org.in Subject: Re: [AI] Wanted - ideas for accessible gadgets. Hi Sudhir, Excellent initiative. I'd like to have something which gives a signal when I reach my home. We know there are remote controls for motor bikes by which motor bikes make sound when it is pressed. Similarly I will keep the remote pressed when I enter my street and there should be a sound when I reach my home. I request all to speak their ideas on the list so that there can be improvements to each other's thoughts. Besides, we can know if there is a solution already available which we aren't aware of. On 12/28/11, Pranav Lal pranav@gmail.com wrote: Sudhir, Get your friend in touch with the XRCVC and take things from there. For me, I need an accessible console for my elliptical trainer. Pranav Search for old postings at: http://www.mail-archive.com/accessindia@accessindia.org.in/ To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org .in -- G. Vamshi PH Res : +91 877-2243861 Mobile: +91 9949349497 E-mail ID: gvamsh...@gmail.com Skype: gvamshi81 www.retinaindia.org From darkness unto light Search for old postings at: http://www.mail-archive.com/accessindia@accessindia.org.in/ To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in Search for old postings at: http://www.mail-archive.com/accessindia@accessindia.org.in/ To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in Search for old postings at: http://www.mail-archive.com/accessindia@accessindia.org.in/ To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in
[AI] Wanted - ideas for accessible gadgets.
Good morning, folks. Good to be writing to the list after a long break. It was great meeting with those of you who were at the AI convention at Thiruvananthapuram in November. A friend of mine who is a hands-on designer of industrial electronics products has shown an interest in developing / customizing everyday gadgets for use by visually challenged folks like us. This is as much out of his ddesire to help our community as also from his keen interest in taking challenging assignments related to research development of innovative solutions through electronic embedded systems. An idea that I mooted to him immediately was developing a Universal Remote control with speech support that can be sellf-learning to use with gadgets like TVs, DVDs, electric switches, air-conditioners etc. Another idea which struck me was developing a Pen Friend like device that can be priced much lesser for the Indian market place. I would love to get more ideas from all of you for sharing with my friend. At the moment, this is a purely personal project for him with no concrete business plan to roll out the product commercially, but, I am sure all product innovations take the same route. So, please chip in with your ideas, on or off the list. Since I am a technophobic myself, it would be good if you could pen your ideas in plain English than in jargons. (smile) My contact info is given at the end of this mail. Here's wishing you a dashing New Year in 2012... Thanks RS E :sudhi...@nestgroup.net M : + 91 98 472 76 126 Search for old postings at: http://www.mail-archive.com/accessindia@accessindia.org.in/ To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in
