[Ct-nfb] Device Helps Blind See with Tongue

Hamit Campos hamitcampos at gmail.com
Thu May 24 22:35:18 UTC 2012


I just listened to the vid, and I don't know man. I mean the guy says it's
like static on your tung. That sounds kind of creepy to me, shocking your
self on purpose essentially.Now, I'm sure it's not your regular old snap
kind of thing you get when you're staticly charged and you touch someone,
but it still makes me go hmmmmmmmm. I guess we'll never really know until
one of us tries it.Any volunteers? I'd be curious accept that the static
thing kind of gets me. Does it get any of you?

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Philosophy Discussion Time

I just caught this story on a Boston news station, and I want to hear
people's opinions of it.  There are many different versions of this news
story, but here's a link to a page with a video and text article:

http://wearecentralpa.com/fulltext-healthcast?nxd_id=369932

Feel free to find other versions of this story using a simple search engine.

When I heard that Mark couldn't wait for the day that he could navigate his
own home independently with a device, I thought to myself "hey, I already
have one of those devices.  It's called a cane!"

In my reading on the story, I get the impression that researchers think that
this device is important because we blind people are oblivious to our
surroundings and need some way to get information about them.  I think this
is cool research for the sake of research, but I see absolutely no practical
need for the device.  With the proper skills and training, we can
independently navigate our own surroundings.  I further wonder if maybe
these uneducated or incorrectly educated researchers simply don't know about
the techniques we blind people can use to independently navigate our
surroundings or if they view them as inferior and think we should be trying
to operate as closely to sighted people as we can.

What does everyone on the list think?

Justin Salisbury
President
North Carolina Association of Blind Students


Justin M. Salisbury
Class of 2012
B.A. in Mathematics
East Carolina University
president at alumni.ecu.edu

"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change
the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has."    -MARGARET MEAD


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