Re: [chuck-users] Multiline Braille display

you wouldn't have had to have the nerve, it was the nerve of your friend that was important, because if he didn't have it, he wouldn't have felt the shock On 8/25/2011 12:47 AM, Robert Poor wrote:

On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 21:29, Rich Caloggero wrote:

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... One of the inherent problems with speech, and this one-finger braille concept, is that the image is not static; it is essentially moving in time and requires you to build up a static image in your mind. Think of how difficult it would be to lood at a page of code through a straw...

Uh, ten fingertip sized mice? <smile>

Actually, why not? It would be an worthwhile engineering challenge to get the spatial / temporal fidelity high enough that you forget that they're there. Just as long as they wouldn't stop you from typing or doing other useful things with your hands.

I had a blind friend who was a master audio engineer, and wanted me to build him a V.U. meter that he'd strap on his arm. I would have done it, except he really wanted electrical shocks rather than physical actuators. In retrospect, it probably just needed a constant current high-voltage supply, but I didn't have the nerve... _______________________________________________ chuck-users mailing list chuck-users@lists.cs.princeton.edu https://lists.cs.princeton.edu/mailman/listinfo/chuck-users