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Shoes with braille (tactile) pins on top to touch the top of the foot. Pins are large and can touch 2-3 letters at once.
Toe buttons are provided for control: Play, Pause, Rewind, etc., with safeguards from normal walking.
Books, transcripts, etc. play in your shoe. At first, they are also read
aloud; then slowly turn the volume down as the wearer learns shoe braille. Eventually, person can talk on the phone, read on the computer and read from the braille-shoe.
Goal: add a channel of human input.
(normal channels: Reading, Hearing)
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quite simply a stunning idea
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The underneath of the foot would be a lot more sensitive to this sort of thing - so you'd have to have the 'pins' in the sole of the shoe, pointing up but I think the Braille signal could be differentiated from the general pressure on the sole of the foot caused by walking. |
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It would be interesting if Braille were the future of instant messaging. You could IM with as many people as you like while attending the board meeting... |
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I can't find my copy of "Newtonian Casino" - wasn't this proposed in that scam? |
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"Type toe" (through the Tulips) |
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Tis good.
I wonder if proximity sensors could activate pins around the sides of the foot for a sort of tactile radar. |
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This would be great for my blind feet. |
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