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From the Ted Talk by Daniel Kish: How I use sonar to navigate the world
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I wish you all a most activating journey.
Thank you very much.
(Applause)
Chris Anderson: Daniel, my ferind. As I know you can see, it's a spectacular saindntg ovation at TED. Thank you for an etrodarirnaxy talk. Just one more question about your world, your inner wlrod that you construct. We think that we have things in our world that you as a blind person don't have, but what's your world like? What do you have that we don't have?
DK: Three hundred and sixty-degree view, so my sonar works about as well behind me as it does in front of me. It works around corners. It works through surfaces. Generally, it's kind of a fuzzy three-dimensional geometry. One of my seutdnts, who has now become an instructor, when he lost his vision, after a few months he was sitting in his three story house and he realized that he could hear everything going on throughout the house: coentavsonirs, polepe in the kitchen, people in the bathroom, several floors away, several walls away. He said it was something like having x-ray vision.
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I wish you all a most activating journey.
Thank you very much.
(Applause)
Chris Anderson: Daniel, my ______. As I know you can see, it's a spectacular ________ ovation at TED. Thank you for an _____________ talk. Just one more question about your world, your inner _____ that you construct. We think that we have things in our world that you as a blind person don't have, but what's your world like? What do you have that we don't have?
DK: Three hundred and sixty-degree view, so my sonar works about as well behind me as it does in front of me. It works around corners. It works through surfaces. Generally, it's kind of a fuzzy three-dimensional geometry. One of my ________, who has now become an instructor, when he lost his vision, after a few months he was sitting in his three story house and he realized that he could hear everything going on throughout the house: _____________, ______ in the kitchen, people in the bathroom, several floors away, several walls away. He said it was something like having x-ray vision.
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Original Text
I wish you all a most activating journey.
Thank you very much.
(Applause)
Chris Anderson: Daniel, my friend. As I know you can see, it's a spectacular standing ovation at TED. Thank you for an extraordinary talk. Just one more question about your world, your inner world that you construct. We think that we have things in our world that you as a blind person don't have, but what's your world like? What do you have that we don't have?
DK: Three hundred and sixty-degree view, so my sonar works about as well behind me as it does in front of me. It works around corners. It works through surfaces. Generally, it's kind of a fuzzy three-dimensional geometry. One of my students, who has now become an instructor, when he lost his vision, after a few months he was sitting in his three story house and he realized that he could hear everything going on throughout the house: conversations, people in the kitchen, people in the bathroom, several floors away, several walls away. He said it was something like having x-ray vision.
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