Re: Sunu Band vs WeWalk smart cane
Re: Sunu Band vs WeWalk smart cane Ok. The Sunu band is a plastic watch with a cylinder on one end, and two buttons on one side.The WeWalk is a flimzy cane with a rolling tip that has a big bulky handle. The handle is primarily plastic with a sort of rubberized grip, you have a button on the back, and on the top you have a glass trackpad that controls different functions of the cane.The cane does fold, but it's tricky to get the strap to go around the cane. The strap is not like other white canes, and it's a big huge elastic thing. So you have to wrap it around the cane a few times and do something else.I figured it out, but I really don't know how to explain it URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/500486/#p500486 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: Sunu Band vs WeWalk smart cane
Re: Sunu Band vs WeWalk smart cane People who are pissed about the water resistance, obviously this may vary from product to product but generally most things that aren't water resistant can withstand at least a little bit of rain. I haven't seen the WeWalk yet but if it doesn't have any huge or obvious openings it would probably be fine, the only time you wouldn't want to be using it would be, like, a thunderstorm or whatever where the rain is very heavy. Granted this is more of a problem in some parts of the US like florida in the summer, but you'd probably be fine here in the UK, and if it really did get bad you probably wouldn't want to be out there anyway, smart cane or no smart cane, you'd already have enough trouble navigating just because of the conditions.My self, I'm looking into getting one of these myself. I'd never herd of the other thing OP mentioned, so was wondering if anyone who's owned / seen both could give me a physical description of both devices. One thing I'm curious about is weather or not the WeWalk can fold, I'd hope so because if not that really is a huuge issue. judging from the OP's description the sunu or however it's called seems to be more of a watch / band of some description so the above question wouldn't apply. Please do correct me if I'm wrong though. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/500438/#p500438 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: Sunu Band vs WeWalk smart cane
Re: Sunu Band vs WeWalk smart cane No water propper water resistance is a bit of a turnoff for me for these products. I'd rather use my normal white cane and occasionally run into things I couldn't find rather than something that is ruined if some rain touches it. Though in terms of such tech in general, I'm hyped for advances in this field in the 20s. Since the tech you need to run such devices is getting even cheeper and even low-end sensors are becoming more powerful, I'm pretty confident we will see a propper smart cane that can do more than just being a shield for objects on the ground. It's just very unfortunate that the blind institutions over here can't seem to catch onto trends like these in a timely fassion, I've never heard of these things and people working with them till now, and never from any austrian institutions. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/500418/#p500418 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: Sunu Band vs WeWalk smart cane
Re: Sunu Band vs WeWalk smart cane The sunu is abit water resistant, like it can be touched by water, at least that is what they say.In my experience, it is water resistant, I was careful not to put it in water, but I always got some on it.To be honest, it feels cheap, it feels like a toy for the most part, but yeah, asistive products feel like that in my experience. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/500367/#p500367 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: Sunu Band vs WeWalk smart cane
Re: Sunu Band vs WeWalk smart cane I just discovered something.So this week, I decided to go back to using my regular Ambutech White cane, because my mom and I want to return the WeWalk. I was using the WeWalk for almost a month: and I will say if you use WeWalk for a long time without using a standard cane, it may feel weird the next time you're using one URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/500300/#p500300 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: Sunu Band vs WeWalk smart cane
Re: Sunu Band vs WeWalk smart cane Honestly, since it's an assistive technology product, the fact that it's not water resistant doesn't surprise me. I've never heard of water resistant assistive technology products, but that's not to say they don't exist somewhere URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/500238/#p500238 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: Sunu Band vs WeWalk smart cane
Re: Sunu Band vs WeWalk smart cane well this is interesting. I normally use the phone to have a sort of vague idea where some new place is, because for instance, lazarillo, the guide app is not really accurate.. so at one moment you might be arriving, and then a few seconds later you are still 200 meters away from the place, so this is a bit annoying since I really have not a clue if i just crossed the right street at the right time and or made the correct turn. As always people are thankfully helpful in this country so I have been using the phone less and less to orient myself. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/500197/#p500197 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: Sunu Band vs WeWalk smart cane
Re: Sunu Band vs WeWalk smart cane someone most like done that already, a search term like wewalk review can bring you some results URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/500152/#p500152 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: Sunu Band vs WeWalk smart cane
Re: Sunu Band vs WeWalk smart cane I wish someone could do a demo on these devices; It would be awesome for people who don't have access to them. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/500126/#p500126 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: Sunu Band vs WeWalk smart cane
Re: Sunu Band vs WeWalk smart cane wewalks is going to opensource some of its features sune enough to public for better flexibility, but yeah the waterproof thing is a mager problem URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/500051/#p500051 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: Sunu Band vs WeWalk smart cane
Re: Sunu Band vs WeWalk smart cane Is any of the software for this open source? I would love a fully open-source mobility aid. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/500050/#p500050 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: Sunu Band vs WeWalk smart cane
Re: Sunu Band vs WeWalk smart cane I had brief interest in the Sunu band, but every review I've come across says that it feels like it will fall apart at any second.For $300, it should feel durable at the very least. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/500045/#p500045 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: Sunu Band vs WeWalk smart cane
Re: Sunu Band vs WeWalk smart cane one of my friends has one and hers is lasting. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/500046/#p500046 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: Sunu Band vs WeWalk smart cane
Re: Sunu Band vs WeWalk smart cane I had brief interest in the Sunu band, but every review I've come across says that it feels like it will fall apart at any second.For $269, it should feel durable at the very least. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/500045/#p500045 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: Sunu Band vs WeWalk smart cane
Re: Sunu Band vs WeWalk smart cane Hi.Wow, you can't use WeWalk in the rain, that's a huge oversite on their product. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/500036/#p500036 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: Sunu Band vs WeWalk smart cane
Re: Sunu Band vs WeWalk smart cane Seriously? Wow... URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/500016/#p500016 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: Sunu Band vs WeWalk smart cane
Re: Sunu Band vs WeWalk smart cane That may be true. I do know for sure that the WeWalk is not water proof at all, and they even tell you not to use it in rainy conditions URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/51/#p51 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: Sunu Band vs WeWalk smart cane
Re: Sunu Band vs WeWalk smart cane Hello all!How about water resistance? I mean, both devices are used outside, usually not within your home. So if the whether gets rainy, what happens? which of the two devices is more water resistant?I was thinking about buying a Wewalk. A team of developers from Serbia made a prototype of a smart glove, which could tell you if there is an object near you, read colors and banknotes, vibrate according to the light intensity and a few more things. So once it goes out of the prototype stage, it mightreplace both devices.Best! URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/50/#p50 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: Sunu Band vs WeWalk smart cane
Re: Sunu Band vs WeWalk smart cane I had a good experience with WeWalk's battery URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/47/#p47 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: Sunu Band vs WeWalk smart cane
Re: Sunu Band vs WeWalk smart cane If you have an android, get the beta version of the sunu app, it is much, much better than the stock one, that doesn't work for me, at least it didn't the last time I tryed it.How is the battery on the we walk? URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/44/#p44 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: Sunu Band vs WeWalk smart cane
Re: Sunu Band vs WeWalk smart cane Yes. Battery life is really good.I just tried it again and it worked. It found some restaurants around me and a couple of other things URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/499989/#p499989 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: Sunu Band vs WeWalk smart cane
Re: Sunu Band vs WeWalk smart cane I have the sunu and it is good, battery life is good too at least on my unit, but I herd that some have problems.Yours might be a defective unit though, mine says that I have stuff around me.I don't like sunu's build quality, it is very easy to scratch and the top touch panel is made of a crap plastic with some bad athesive, you look on the sides and you will notice that it lifted abit. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/499978/#p499978 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
