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Honda Built Shoe Navigation To Make Walking Easier For The Visually Impaired - This new device could bring personal mobility up to date (jalopnik.com)
submitted by Carnegie89
Marconius 6 points 2y ago
This is a bad idea and they should feel bad for making it. The cost alone is prohibitive, as are all the primary flaws with adding tech to high-danger and high-use areas. What if I kick something or hit the just right into something I missed with my cane? What if something spills on the shoe or device? Weatherproof? Are they confused by escalators and stairs? Would the feedback become distracting? It just seems like a bunch of tech people who don't live our experience creating stuff just to create stuff without asking us if we'd even want it. Just like smart canes, website overlays, etc.
Arqeria 2 points 2y ago
To be fair, the wewalk wasn’t actually a terrible idea from the beginning, and could’ve been pretty decent if the GPS wasn’t half broken and the thing was waterproof, seriously? You make a smart cane and don’t even make it waterproof?
Agreed that this will almost certainly help nobody though, I can see this being much more of a hindrance than a help particularly to ADHD people such as myself.
Agreed that this will almost certainly help nobody though, I can see this being much more of a hindrance than a help particularly to ADHD people such as myself.
SLJ7 3 points 2y ago
Could be nice, but what will it do that a good GPS app won't? Seems like what we need are realtime visual analyses, not a remix of turn-by-turn.
snow671 2 points 2y ago
You could pair them with those GPS glasses that never took off!
Iamheno 2 points 2y ago
It’d be more useful if the pod on the outside of the shoe were FLIR, or some other forward looking sensor, equipped to detect obstacles low to the ground and higher above knee level. Basically as is this is just a reheated version of GPS I already have on my phone. So another battery and item I’d have to carry daily?
oskarmbr 1 points 2y ago
An intelligent obstacle detection in shoes is available at $1.
rumster 1 points 2y ago
It's a device on top of the shoe. I'm not 100% certain but I think they had someone at the CSUN conference with it on.
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