[CCCNFBW] our meeting

[Robert Sellers]

My apologies for missing our chapter meeting this morning. Issues outside of
my control dictated my decision.

It was planned for me to demonstrate the google glasses. It is amazing
technology/.

Perhaps I can demo them at the picnic. But, because I'm not sure how long
their current promotion will last, I'd like to make a few comments about the
glasses in this email. Their promotion is; if a person signs up now and
mentions my name as a referral, we both get a free month's worth of service.

The glasses work in this way. Through an app on Iphone, we connect to
another human being, called an agent, the picture can either be transmitted
through the camera on the Iphone or through a camera mounted in glasses that
one wears as normal glasses. From this picture the agent can describe the
layout of a room, find empty chairs. Basic ally anything a sighted person
would see. I've used them to ead my mail, go shopping by myself, put
together equipment. They were used to help Paula put together a new rug
shampooer she purchase. There is a list serve we are on and other users have
used the glasses  in numerous and various situation. Gary Wonder used them
to put together a new television system he bouth.  

 People have used the glasses in numerous ways during their daily life.
Users of the glasses who fly can go to and from their airline locations by
themselves. Find their own luggage without any sky cap assistance.

One lady used the glasses to tour the National monuments at Washington, D.C.
alone. Some have used it to read their comuter monitor screen to them.
Others have gone into restaurents and the agent can read the menu to them.
Myself and others  have used the glasses to have our mail read to us. No
longer depending upon waiting for a reader.

It is amazing to walk into a room and have the room describe to you and whee
empty chairs are and also where the head of the table or where the speakers
platform is located. The agent can read agendas, handouts, etc.. 

You can walk through a mall and the agent can tell you what store you are
walking by.  Most malls provide a layout that the agent can get access to. I
used them to negotiate the new platform at the mall.

They do not replace the cane or the dog. The agent remains silent when
crossing streets, but they can help find the  buttons and poles for the
audibles. They are not permitted to help in bathrooms. They will find them,
but are turned off when you go nside of the restroom. 

I can go on with a hundred other ways we the users of the glasses have used
them. It is amazing how they can be helpful and make ones life less
complicated.

 

Their website is www.aira.io

 

 

 

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