Re: App Turns Smartphone Into Virtual Cane

2014-01-17 Thread Maria and Joe Chapman
for listening! - Original Message - From: Julie Dawson julie.magno...@att.net To: viphone@googlegroups.com Sent: Wednesday, January 08, 2014 7:27 PM Subject: Re: App Turns Smartphone Into Virtual Cane I wonder if this ap could be usedoutside and programmed with routs outside. What

Re: App Turns Smartphone Into Virtual Cane

2014-01-17 Thread Alan Paganelli
! - Original Message - From: Julie Dawson julie.magno...@att.net To: viphone@googlegroups.com Sent: Wednesday, January 08, 2014 7:27 PM Subject: Re: App Turns Smartphone Into Virtual Cane I wonder if this ap could be usedoutside and programmed with routs outside. What terrific idea for an ap

Re: App Turns Smartphone Into Virtual Cane

2014-01-17 Thread Maria and Joe Chapman
available upon request. Thanks for listening! - Original Message - From: Julie Dawson julie.magno...@att.net To: viphone@googlegroups.com Sent: Wednesday, January 08, 2014 7:27 PM Subject: Re: App Turns Smartphone Into Virtual Cane I wonder if this ap could be usedoutside and programmed

Re: App Turns Smartphone Into Virtual Cane

2014-01-16 Thread Alan Paganelli
for listening! - Original Message - From: Julie Dawson julie.magno...@att.net To: viphone@googlegroups.com Sent: Wednesday, January 08, 2014 7:27 PM Subject: Re: App Turns Smartphone Into Virtual Cane I wonder if this ap could be usedoutside and programmed with routs outside. What terrific

Re: App Turns Smartphone Into Virtual Cane

2014-01-15 Thread Julie Dawson
I wonder if this ap could be usedoutside and programmed with routs outside. What terrific idea for an ap! Live simply, Love generously, Care deeply, Speak kindly And leave the rest to God! - Original Message - From: Gary Bowers gh...@swbell.net To: viphone@googlegroups.com

Re: App Turns Smartphone Into Virtual Cane

2014-01-11 Thread Marianne Denning
I think the idea of infrared has some possibility. It is amazing what can come from ideas like this. Hopefully, we can have something to help with indoor mobility in the future. I hope people keep working on these ideas because I believe it is possible. I will still use my dog even when

Re: App Turns Smartphone Into Virtual Cane

2014-01-10 Thread RobH.
However, many a good idea has been known to come from some really bad ideas. Hummmnmnmnm, So what was the long spindly rotor designed for, before they put it on helicopters? But handles were a good idea, even before they invented tea pots and kettles. Rh,... trying not to think

Re: App Turns Smartphone Into Virtual Cane

2014-01-10 Thread RobH.
Bit more OT, but you mentioned it:- I, and I suppose We, don't like being poked in the eye any more than anyone else, so do wear eye protection out doors regardless. Indoors too recently since nearly poking my eye out on a bit of furniture someone had moved and I didn't know about until I

RE: App Turns Smartphone Into Virtual Cane

2014-01-09 Thread Ron Pelletier
11:49 PM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: RE: App Turns Smartphone Into Virtual Cane Interesting concept. However, I think iBeacons are the way of the future, they could probably do anything this system could do. -Original Message- From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone

Re: App Turns Smartphone Into Virtual Cane

2014-01-09 Thread RobH.
To: viphone@googlegroups.com Sent: Thursday, January 09, 2014 12:32 PM Subject: RE: App Turns Smartphone Into Virtual Cane Also, an iPhone gives no protection against obstacles so it's a bit exaggerated to say it turns the phone into a virtual cane. Ron Danvers -Original Message- From: viphone

Re: App Turns Smartphone Into Virtual Cane

2014-01-09 Thread John Diakogeorgiou
it catching on. Sounds like another science degree student's final year project again. Rh. - Original Message - From: Ron Pelletier ron.pellet...@sympatico.ca To: viphone@googlegroups.com Sent: Thursday, January 09, 2014 12:32 PM Subject: RE: App Turns Smartphone Into Virtual Cane

Re: App Turns Smartphone Into Virtual Cane

2014-01-09 Thread RobH.
: Thursday, January 09, 2014 5:33 PM Subject: Re: App Turns Smartphone Into Virtual Cane It's amazing the things they've tried developing over the years to help us walk without a cane. Remember the Sonic Guide? On 1/9/14, RobH. bobs...@googlemail.com wrote: I wouldn't be happy using a £500 phone

Re: App Turns Smartphone Into Virtual Cane

2014-01-09 Thread Regina Alvarado
...@sympatico.ca To: viphone@googlegroups.com Sent: Thursday, January 09, 2014 12:32 PM Subject: RE: App Turns Smartphone Into Virtual Cane Also, an iPhone gives no protection against obstacles so it's a bit exaggerated to say it turns the phone into a virtual cane. Ron Danvers -Original Message

RE: App Turns Smartphone Into Virtual Cane

2014-01-09 Thread Wayne gmail
- From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Regina Alvarado Sent: Thursday, January 09, 2014 11:55 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: App Turns Smartphone Into Virtual Cane Sorry, a technological wonder will not do it for me! Give me my dog or a cane any

Re: App Turns Smartphone Into Virtual Cane

2014-01-08 Thread Ryan Mann
If I understand wright, QR codes need to be put on the ground wherever the blind person wants to use this app? Sent from my iPhone On Jan 8, 2014, at 7:16 PM, Gary Bowers gh...@swbell.net wrote: App Turns Smartphone Into Virtual Cane for the Blind MIT Technology Review January 8, 2014

RE: App Turns Smartphone Into Virtual Cane

2014-01-08 Thread Gary Bowers
, January 08, 2014 8:09 PM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: App Turns Smartphone Into Virtual Cane If I understand wright, QR codes need to be put on the ground wherever the blind person wants to use this app? Sent from my iPhone On Jan 8, 2014, at 7:16 PM, Gary Bowers gh...@swbell.net

RE: App Turns Smartphone Into Virtual Cane

2014-01-08 Thread Sieghard Weitzel
Interesting concept. However, I think iBeacons are the way of the future, they could probably do anything this system could do. -Original Message- From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Gary Bowers Sent: Wednesday, January 08, 2014 4:17 PM To:

Re: App Turns Smartphone Into Virtual Cane

2014-01-08 Thread RobH.
Sigh!... different I suppose. I can imagine so many of the public buildings sticking tape all over the place for us, and how easy it would be in a crowded public building trying to find the tape with this app. I'll not carry on, they mean well, I have a lotof issue with some of this