[Blindtlk] Zero or low gravity environments was RE: The UnfriendlySkies -- What happened?

Mike Freeman k7uij at panix.com
Thu Apr 4 20:39:55 UTC 2013


So have I.

Mike Freeman
sent from my iPhone

On Apr 4, 2013, at 10:26, "Peter Donahue" <pdonahue2 at satx.rr.com> wrote:

> Good afternoon everyone,
> 
>    Mark Riccobono has all ready done it. Ask him.
> 
> Peter Donahue
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Daniel Garcia" <dangarcia3 at hotmail.com>
> To: "'Blind Talk Mailing List'" <blindtlk at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Thursday, April 04, 2013 8:40 AM
> Subject: [Blindtlk] Zero or low gravity environments was RE: The 
> UnfriendlySkies -- What happened?
> 
> 
> How would blind people deal with zero G or low G environments?I would
> imagine it would be difficult. One of those great things about gravity is
> that you can use it to tap your cane and that you don't fly off in any
> unknown direction.
> 
> Daniel
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: blindtlk [mailto:blindtlk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of David Evans
> Sent: Thursday, April 04, 2013 12:03 AM
> To: Blind Talk Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [Blindtlk] The Unfriendly Skies -- What happened?
> 
> 
> Dear Mike,
> 
> I still have hope for indoor navigation apps as long as I can get direction,
> position location, distance and points of interest information and maybe a
> audio description of the area, its shape, size and location of Poi's within
> it, it may give me enough info to go on instead of using a sighted guide.
> If I can find my gate, know if it is on the left or right, ahead of me or
> behind me, how far and maybe have a method of telling me if I am veering off
> cores to the left or right, it could work for me.
> Afterall, I never thought that we would see a way that we could use a touch




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