Seeing Aid text page and help request

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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.

4-4-2009: 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

2-19-2009: 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."

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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 Burke, 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".

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