[nabs-l] Device Helps Blind See with Tongue

[Bill]

blue-tooth in my mouth sounds like cancer just waiting to happen, I'll pass.

On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 8:48 PM, Sophie Trist <sweetpeareader at gmail.com> wrote:
> I find the thought of operating my braillenote with my mouth slightly creepy
> and I'm not ashamed to admit it. And another reason sighted people are so
> inept at traveling is because (at least in school hallways) they never look
> where they're going. :) This boggles my mind...
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Brandon Keith Biggs" <brandonboy13 at comcast.net
> To: "National Association of Blind Students mailing list" <nabs-l at nfbnet.org
> Date sent: Tue, 22 May 2012 17:55:06 -0700
> Subject: Re: [nabs-l] Device Helps Blind See with Tongue
>
> haha!
> I really think that using the tongue to do things is a huge under exploited
> part of our body... I'd like to see some way to control my note taker with
> my tongue...
> I doubt I'll be buying this, unless it makes sight-reading piano music
> feasible.
> As for sighted people not understanding that blind people are probably
> better equipped to travel than they are, it probably has to do with the fact
> sighted people have no idea how to travel without signs.
> I'm highly amused and I hope the failure of their first product doesn't
> deter them from making Bluetooth remote controls for the mouth!
> Thanks,
>
> Brandon Keith Biggs
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Justin Salisbury
> Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2012 3:13 PM
> To: nabs-l at nfbnet.org
> Subject: [nabs-l] Device Helps Blind See with Tongue
>
> Philosophy Discussion Time
>
> I just caught this story on the local news, 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
>
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Bill Casson
University of New Mexico
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Lewis & Clark Alumnus '11
B.A. Physics and Math/Comp Sci.
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