Hey if you think walking fast herts when you walk in to something, You need to try getting hit by a tour bus carrying 50 american tourists,
That I can tell you really flippen herts, Part of my troubles is the paving around my city needs to be cleaned up as it's cobble stones and generally crap and never maintained. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of [email protected] Sent: Tuesday, 12 January 2021 6:31 am To: [email protected] Subject: RE: Blind Compass and Blind Bat - new apps for the blind I think it is easier to walk straight when walking faster; the straight line is easier to feel. Trouble is, if you crash into something, it hurts more. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Janet Bell Sent: Sunday, January 10, 2021 11:58 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Blind Compass and Blind Bat - new apps for the blind Hi Simon I reckon I walk straighter when I have had a few than when I am sober. Janet On 10/01/2021 22:40, Simon A Fogarty wrote: > Sorry > Blind people not walking straight, > Hell now theres an issue > If I could walk straight I wouldn't need to drink anymore. > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of > Richard Turner > Sent: Monday, 11 January 2021 4:10 am > To: [email protected] > Subject: RE: Blind Compass and Blind Bat - new apps for the blind > > Hello tony, > > I forwarded your message to my former coworkers, many of which are > Orientation and Mobility instructors. > If I get any feedback from them, I'll let you know. > I know they have struggled with some clients on getting them to learn to walk > straight, so I think this will be a big help. > > I'm not sure about the Blind Bat app. The idea of echo location is to have > the click loud enough to hear the echo back from objects. I'd be very > interested in hearing from anyone who uses echo location to find out how well > this works. > > A very interesting idea though. > > > > > Richard, in the U.S. > > "You know," said Arthur, "it's at times like this, when I'm trapped in a > Vogon airlock with a man from Betelgeuse, and about to die of asphyxiation in > deep space, that I really wish I'd listened to what my mother told me when I > was young." > "Why, what did she tell you?" > "I don't know, I didn't listen." > -- Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy > > . I'm not the card shark > . My web site, www.turner42.com > . > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of > Tony Malykh > Sent: Saturday, January 9, 2021 4:46 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Blind Compass and Blind Bat - new apps for the blind > > Blind Compass and Blind Bat - new apps for the blind Hello, My name is Tony > and I wrote two iPhone apps for blind people and recently I published them in > AppStore. > Blind Compass is a compass app specifically designed for blind people. I was > surprised that such an app didn't seem to exist before - or am I missing > something? First, it reports your heading continuously by varying pitch, so > that even with not much musical training you can easily memorize how the > right direction sounds like, and you'll be able to walk in straight line just > by listening to your direction. ALso when your heading crosses North,East, > South, or West you will hear that spoken to you. > I recommend to use Blind Compass with bone conductance bluetooth headphones. > Bone conductance headphones don't block ears, so that you can hear sounds > from the environment, as well as audio feedback from BlindCompasss. > You can also have your heading spoken by either pressing button in the app, > or if you are using bluetooth headphones, you can press play button once. > Second, Blind Compass allows you to lock your direction. Either press lock > button in the app, or press fast forward button on your headphones, or double > press play button on your headphones, and your direction will be locked. You > will hear auditory feedback guiding you back to the original heading. If you > allow Blind Compass to use location data, then it will also count distance > travelled from the point where you locked your location. This way you can > cross vast open space without fear of veering. > > Another app I wrote is Blind Bat - and it is designed to help people to learn > echolocation. Maybe I'm not that good at it myself, but I wanted to play > around with it, so I designed an app that would make ideal click, whatever > that might entail. You have a few parameters you can adjust and the app would > generate click sound that conforms to these parameters. 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