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K - Sonar Promotional Video
On behalf of Bay Advanced Technologies, we would like to present, for your consideration, the enclosed video material describing the innovative technology that BAT has developed to assist blind travelers. It has been produced for you to illustrate the unique benefits the K-Sonar has to offer. Please review this information and consider that the K-Sonar makes a real difference to the lives of many blind people.
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K - Sonar on Close Up
Imagine having an idea - one you know will work and you spend the best part of fifty years working on it to ensure it does. That's pretty much the life story of Professor Leslie Kay, one of New Zealand most eminent academics. He was head-hunted from the U.K. forty years ago and built Canterbury University's of New Zealand now world-renowned Electrical Engineering Department. But even before he got to New Zealand, he was already working on his vision - to help blind people "see with sound".
View VideoK Sonar walk on Blind Cool Tech podcast
Larry Skutchan, the project leader for technology at American Printing House for the Blind, has recently became involved with a study done by the University of Louisville that measures the effectiveness of the K-Sonar. He was impressed and has become totally fascinated with the device's capabilities and what it can do for mobility. On one of the episodes, he has recorded for a popular Blind Cool Tech podcast, is the demonstration of the use of the K-Sonar device on a two mile walk.
Listen to Podcast (39.3MB)Otago Daily Times Article "Sonic tool a boost"
"Life has become a lot easier for John Barnes in the past two and a-half weeks. The legally-blind Dunedin man has bought a sonar device which attaches to the top of his white cane, warning him through tones transmitted through a set of headphones whether the path ahead is clear."
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