I have seen something like that, but for some reason the handheld type seems to have taken off. I have heard of ones you can mount to canes, but you could never let the cane rotate and that would be kind of strange when tapping along; the cane would move too fast for the computer to take in what the beam is "seeing". I am not sure how those work.
Have a great day, Alex
----- Original Message ----- From: "Scott Granados" <gsgranados@xxxxxxxxxxx To: <gps-talkusers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Date sent: Fri, 13 Jun 2008 06:05:45 -0700 Subject: [gps-talkusers] Re: The mini guide
I wish you could mount that on glasses! Have them either vibrate
or beep in
your ear. Leave the hands out of it!
----- Original Message ----- From: "Alex Hall" <mehgcap@xxxxxxx To: <gps-talkusers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2008 6:44 PM Subject: [gps-talkusers] Re: The mini guide
Question: how can you operate a cane/dog, gps/bn, and mini guide
all at
the same time? I had a hard enough time with just the cane and
mini guide,
but I was amazed when I had an opportunity to use the mini guide
(a device
like it anyway). I avoided countless collisions with people in
a very
crowded school that my cane would not have picked up because of
how short
I have to hold the cane in those crowds. I have just not had
the money to
get a mini guide, plus I have found my cane to be quite
sufficient...
until I run into something (figuratively and literally) where I
realize
that one of those magic Milky Way bars (as another poster put
it) would
have been quite handy.Also, for those interested, the device sends out an ultrasonic
beam from
one of the two front ports. The other port senses the
reflection of that
beam and sends the strength of the reflection to a processor
which tells
the vibrating motor how fast to go (in my case it used pulses;
the closer
together the pulses were, the closer the object).
Have a great day, Alex
----- Original Message ----- From: Wendy Slominsky <wendyslominsky@xxxxxxxxxxx To: "gps-talkusers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <gps-talkusers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Date sent: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 18:57:52 -0400 Subject: [gps-talkusers] The mini guide
This is what I use as well. The GPS can only be as accurate asishumanly possible and it will not help you find anything that specifically. The mini guide has saved me many times trying tofindpoles, benches etc. It's thankfully not too expensive. www.senderogroup.com Good luck!