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Blind man helps develop smart cane that uses Google Maps and sensors to navigate the world (adapt-network.com)
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Marconius 6 points 3y ago
Yup, still not going to buy one. Will stick to my Revolution and Ambutech canes and rely on the skills and technology I already have and use.
Laser_Lens_4 3 points 3y ago
I'd be more willing to try it out if it was a thing you clipped onto your cane. I don't mind tech. It's pretty cool. I just don't want it inside my Kane, you know.
rkingett 2 points 3y ago
Not sure where you're getting it's inside the cane, because it is actually an add-on for your cane.
Laser_Lens_4 1 points 3y ago
Is it? The article makes it sound an awful lot like it's part of the cane
bradley22 2 points 3y ago
I think they may give you a cane along with the device.
I’d personally not buy it.
I’d personally not buy it.
Laser_Lens_4 3 points 3y ago
Right. You know, because we want to spend hundreds of dollars on something that's going to get beat up and last a few years at most.
Amonwilde 1 points 3y ago
I'd get something like this but the feedback would need to be better. Not just a buzz for an obstacle, something more fully tactile. Like, a weak vibration when an obstacle is far that gets stronger as you get closer, and perhaps also something that could detect a cone and not just a line. Might have to be sound and not vibration for that. I'd like to be able to sweep a room and get a sense of the dimensions at least, not just walk into shit which is already what a regular cane does.
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