Hello everybody Gordon, my other half, is shortly going to be starting a refresher course in casework with a mobility instructor. We were talking with our social worker yesterday, she's arranging this. But the point I'm making is that she was speaking about a talking ball-cane.
I've seen people walking around town with these things, and instead of tapping the cane on the ground as you used to have to do, from what I've seen you just role the ball across the ground in front of you as you walk and the cane seems to tell you whether an obstacle or a curb is imminent in your walk-path. Does anybody know anything about these things please? I'm curious as to how the cane gets its spoken information to the user; surely not through the cane itself or els how would you hear it in heavy traffic, etc.? Gordon is apparently going to be given one of these things so I would be grateful for any information. Lynne ======================================= The Techno-Chat E-Mail forum is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free To modify your subscription options, please visit for forum's dedicated web pages located at http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/techno-chat You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Techno-Chat group at either of the following websites: http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/techno-chat/index.html Or: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]> you may also subscribe to this list via RSS. The feed is at: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml> ---------------------------------------
