Seeing Aid text page and help request

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We need your help. As we come closer to deploying our Seeing Aid technology there are still many questions that those with visual impairments can help us sort out. How much information is too much information? What options would you like to see for the communication between our network and the user? Please email us at info@seeingaid.com to get a questionnaire that should help us refine our powerful solutions. We are currently traveling to our National Parks to test our solution. To learn how you or your organization can help us deploy our Location Markers and Seeing Aid tags please email us at info@seeingaid.com. Reaching out to explore a canyon, the mountains ahead of you, and the best pathway to explore a location you have never been to before. That is what we are up to and we think you will be interested and hope you can help.

There are many ways to illuminate. There are many places to explore.

Welcome, we will list all new post at the top of this page right below this line. Please submit your questions and ideas for naming objects with our seeing aid concept to info@seeingaid.com . Also let us know if this page is easily explored with screen readers.

Trying a few new things to help us complete our work. Let us know if screen readers can successfully explore this page. Also let us know if you use twitter, facebook, or myspace? We are finishing up a questionnaire that we would like to get out to those that are visually impaired. Email us at info@seeingaid.com if you would like to get the questionnaire. Please help us get the word out to accelerate the deployment of our Seeing Aid solution. Send others a link to this page or follow us on www.Twitter.com/seeingaid

Thanks for all the new objects and obstacles you have sent in to us. Please keep it up, also let us know how you communicate as a blind or deaf/blind person. Braille? Hand in Hand? text to Braille converters? Please let us know what works best for you in different situations.

On 1-20-2009 a new use for the seeing aid and a powerful new tool to help the blind explore was announced. In addition to identifying objects and obstacles we now also envision the ability for our users to reach out and explore terrain, sculptures, and floor plans with our seeing aid solution. Please email us the things you would most want identified and our seeing aid to define first. Thanks for your help. We think this seeing aid makes sense, we need you to help us make sure it is usable and a friendly assisted technology tool to help the blind.

"Do not follow where the path may lead. Go where there is no path, and leave a trail."

Visit www.HapticGlove.com for some other exciting work our engineers are doing.

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We need your help. Our engineers have created a powerful tool to help the blind become more familiar with their surroundings. We feel our technology and network we have set up has the potential to be one of the most powerful tools created for the blind community. From our early years of automation and systems design we have crafted an engine that is like no other.

Where we need help is in defining the standards and definitions of the objects, obstacles, and locations you most think we should identify. With the help of manufacturers, organizations for the blind, and users like you we intend to build our tools and stick to the adage of "getting it right the first time".

We are not looking to replace other visual aids like the cane. We are looking to augment existing technologies by incorporating GPS, RFID, and our SeeingAid solution to deliver more information about your vicinity and guide you around obstacles and toward targets. Our solution can see around corners, remember the last known location of mobile obstacles, and teach itself safe pathways using artificial intelligence and user provided data.

Here is where we stand apart from others and where we have taken our seeing aid technology years ahead of any other product on the market. Not only will we be telling you where hallways are, where stores are in the mall, and where stairs and elevators are we are going to be able to guide your hand directly to objects by visual picture recognition and scaling systems. We want the tool to be a user friendly extension of your current awareness skills. A helpful guide that you use to find items, avoid accidents, and improve your ability to get out and explore.

That is all we can tell you for now. Please email us directly with more questions. Our email address is info@seeingaid.com .

We would also like you to provide us with a list of the items or problems you most often face when traveling within your house and more importantly when you are out at a new mall or business and need to quickly become comfortable with your surroundings. It is direct input from our potential users, the blind that can most help us in the current stage of development we are in. Lets just say with our 4D database application and mobile propagation technologies that allow one user to update another users database the possibilities are endless. Effectively we can place you the user within a 4Ddatabase with pointers and tags to mobile objects and fixed pathways within your area. Using bluetooth, WiFi, WiMax, cellular, and other existing technologies we can update devices with the last known location of items and obstacles. We are confident this technology will change the world for the better. Hopefully we can get you as excited about it as we are.

Our current list of items and locations we will be defining with our system are:

Water fountain

Doorways

Mailboxes

Trash cans

Slippery when wet signs

Up elevator button

Down elevator button

Doorknob location

Sugar pack

Salt shaker

Pepper shaker

Please submit more information to info@seeingaid.com . Thanks for your help. With the assistance of organizations for the blind, and anyone interested in this technology we think we can deploy a valuable tool for the blind.

This page has been set up by SeeingAid.com and Sensible Ventures, LLC.

There is nearly a decade of work behind this project. With your help we intend to complete our systems and deliver a valuable ground breaking solution for the blind. Other industries will likely want what we have. In due time our technology will find its way into other industries. But first we will complete the seeingaid and the organization that will maintain and develop additional functionality for the blind community.

Thanks to Mitch Govansky, Kevin Burk, and all the engineers for their long hours chasing their dreams and designing the tools and foundation to make this device and system "right the first time".

A letter to the FCC

Seeing Aid research and building the solutions to “Share” knowledge and experiences

Our goal is to put technology and the experience of our engineers to good use. Whenever we use the word share below we are talking about transmitting or transferring knowledge over WiFi, cellular, visual tags, or other forms of RF communication. We are looking for help from the FCC, Universities, and blind organizations to build our mobile network for the blind.

Should we be making sure new devices are accessible or should we be building devices and applications specifically designed for those with disabilities?

We think we have a solution that can do both by helping existing devices become more useable and building new solutions dedicated to mobility issues and orientation issues for the blind.

Ten years ago we started building and researching solutions for the blind. Before we ever release our technologies we want to make sure that we have options available for those that are not only blind but also deaf. This lead us down the path of a tactile delivery system. This included a tactile pad and a haptic glove we have been designing. Once we realized all that we could do with the Haptic Glove connected to the Seeing Aid network we understood the power and variety of applications that could be written to utilize our new sense of touch solutions.
These will include:
Feeling Doppler radar superimposed over the location you are at.
Moving your hand through city streets and 3D buildings while you explore a new city.
Being guided through an office building or restaurant or even along a park trail.
Knowing what isle and shelf your favorite drink or breakfast cereal is sitting on.
Even building a new Haptic Language for communicating across the room or across the globe.

Audio files, text files, and 3D tactile data will need to be updated and then pushed back out to our users. We may even look to broadcast 3D or 4D tactile data for sporting events or TV programs. We have captured data from National Parks across the country that we also hope to convert to 3D tactile data so our users can take in-person tours of canyons, mountains trails, and reach out and touch the valley thousands of feet below. We also hope to provide tours to those with disabilities to be able to go on a trip or tour from a chair at their house or while sitting on a park bench thousands of miles away.

By allowing our users to turn on or off the network learning function we will be able to literally have the blind leading the blind. The collective will continue to grow and build intelligence and learn. The last known locations of objects will be shared, tips on the best hiking trail and benches along the way will be shared, we may even allow classmates to reach out and touch the stars in an astronomy class while the instructor pushes verbal and text lessons to the haptic glove. We hope to open up the world and give those with disabilities more choices or options in mobility. Independence is what many are after. We hope the tools we are building will make our users more independent and more familiar with new locations. We also hope that users share and work together to help us build the network and design new applications that use our seeing aid tags, haptic glove, and tactile solutions. That means the Seeing Aid can give you freedom but also bring you closer to others. Your choice!

Thanks to all the engineers, blind individuals, and deaf blind individuals for arguing their points or offering suggestions on how to best move forward with our research.

Please send your questions, suggestions, and contact information to Kevin Burk at:
Info@SeeingAid.com

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