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I really enjoyed this article. I do take issue with a couple of sentences: "We hear in stereo 3-D." This is not true unless we move our heads. We hear in one dimension, left-to-right. "We hear better than we see." This is an apples-to-monkeys comparison.
While our localization abilities vary by axis, we do have them in all three directions due to the combination of several mechanisms, none of which are actually 'left-to-right'.
How do you "explain" to someone who was born blind that he is "blind"?
"Do you see blackness all the time?"
"No, I don't know what blackness is; I see the same as you see out of the bottom of your feet".
Not sure why he wouldn't use this, this seems vastly superior to the system he uses: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xRgfaUJkdM&feature=playe...
I don't know about that. While that system is clearly easier to use, from what I've heard about echolocation it provides much more detail than that system. If you look at my other post, I linked to a video of a kid who used echolocation. He could distinguish objects - he walked past two garbage cans in the street, and said "Is that a car? clicks his tongue several times No, it's a garbage can."
I'd like to get his opinion of this: http://www.seeingwithsound.com/
No more print articles, please. I'm tired of print dialogs popping up, un-asked-for. Use Readability if you don't like the layout. http://www.mensjournal.com/the-blind-man-who-taught-himself-...
It was probably done to get the article onto one page, not the five that the normal article is.
Kish figures it would require $15 million to prove whether or not his idea is feasible. He fears he’ll never get the opportunity. Sounds like he needs some real angels, those who measure the success of their investment in something bigger than dollars. How does one go about finding and pitching to them?
Can't he use lean startup principles to launch with his existing device that offers an improvement over a cane, instead of raising $15 MM to offer a perfect product that lets blind people play tennis? If I were blind, I would surely pay thousands of dollars for the K-Sonar device if it could enhance my sensory input beyond "what I feel with my cane within 2 feet" to "everything around me within 15 feet". If he got th…
It also doesn't sound as though he knows much about startup methodology or has the personality or desire to solve the bootstrapping problem. He's seems like a domain expert but not an entrepreneur.
I guess that means a lot of blind people will have fewer opportunities.
He's Daredevil!
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daredevil_(Marvel_Comics)
Not an amazing contribution to the thread but relevant and hardly worthy of punishing with downvotes.
Pain is part of the price of freedom. That's a truth that could use to be applied more widely.
Kish figures it would require $15 million to prove whether or not his idea is feasible. He fears he’ll never get the opportunity. Sounds like he needs some real angels, those who measure the success of their investment in something bigger than dollars. How does one go about finding and pitching to them?
Kish figures it would require $15 million to prove whether or not his idea is feasible. He fears he’ll never get the opportunity. Sounds like he needs some real angels, those who measure the success of their investment in something bigger than dollars. How does one go about finding and pitching to them?
Kickstarter.
If you look at the history of Kickstarter's most successful projects, they tend to resemble pre-sales more than "donations." There's usually a product delivered at X level of individual funding, and 90% of the funding comes in at X level.
This model is fantastic for launching new products that are ready to go upon receipt of funding. It's not as successful for raising money for R&D.