Hand-Mounted Sonar For the Blind 98
GeekTech.in writes "The Tacit, a wrist-mounted sonar device with haptic feedback, is like strapping a bat to your wrist to help you see. It makes use of two sonar ping sensors to measure the distance to the nearest obstacle. The relative distance to an object is then fed back to the user using two servos which apply pressure to the back of the wrist."
Bad news, good news (Score:5, Funny)
The good news is that it's users will never know.
Batty acronyms (Score:5, Funny)
...like strapping a bat to your wrist to help you see...
From TFA:
This is a project I'm calling Tacit. No, I didn't bother making an awkward backronym for it....
I think he's not telling us everything. I'll bet the T in TACIT stands for pteropine... it's just that the 'p' is tacit......
dual use (Score:5, Funny)
And when someone hassles you too much, you just set it on 'stun' and give them a blast with it.
Re:Basically an electronic cane.. (Score:2, Funny)