[nfbwatlk] FW: [Wcb-l] FW: [AERNet] New Laser Cane/Stick (ugg)

Lauren Merryfield lauren1 at catliness.com
Thu Apr 29 05:24:42 UTC 2010


Hi,
What?  We can find holes in the ground with our regular canes.  And who 
would want to go around beeping?
Thanks
Lauren
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Alco Canfield" <amcanfield at comcast.net>
To: <nfbwatlk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Wednesday, April 28, 2010 12:44 PM
Subject: [nfbwatlk] FW: [Wcb-l] FW: [AERNet] New Laser Cane/Stick (ugg)


>I certainly wouldn't want one of these.
>
> Alco
>
>  _____
>
> From: wcb-l-bounces at wcbinfo.org [mailto:wcb-l-bounces at wcbinfo.org] On 
> Behalf
> Of Holly B. Kaczmarski
> Sent: Wednesday, April 28, 2010 12:24 PM
> To: wcb-l at wcbinfo.org
> Subject: [Wcb-l] FW: [AERNet] New Laser Cane/Stick (ugg)
>
>
>
> This came to me through my membership in the AER and you "techies" might 
> be
> interested in this new development.  I am not sure how it works and I will
> have to check it out but in the meantime here it the information and link 
> to
> the story in the Associated Press.
>
>
>
> Holly
>
>
>
> From: aernet-bounces at lists.aerbvi.org
> [mailto:aernet-bounces at lists.aerbvi.org] On Behalf Of Ike Presley
> Sent: Wednesday, April 28, 2010 11:51 AM
> To: aernet
> Subject: [AERNet] New Laser Cane/Stick (ugg)
>
>
>
> Hi All,
>
>
>
> Interesting article.
>
> <http://r.smartbrief.com/resp/vFzseLfKqrzziCCiceofCicNaVFn?format=standard>
> Assistive device wins Palestinian girls a trip to international science 
> fair
> Three Palestinian students who attend a U.N.-funded girls school are 
> taking
> their invention of a beeping walking stick to detect obstacles for people
> with visual impairments to Intel's international youth science fair next
> month in California. The students' invention remedies a design flaw in 
> other
> laser canes by using infrared sensors to detect holes in the ground.
> Google/The Associated Press
> <http://r.smartbrief.com/resp/vFzseLfKqrzziCCiceofCicNaVFn?format=standard>
>
>
>
> Ike Presley
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