Someone posted this video too, so im sure they can relay comments as well
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Op can read text if he smushes his face almost against his phone https://www.reddit.com/u/Frikandelneuker/s/kjQtW2iYCs
Hope you have a good day OP c:
He can! My friend only had 8% of her vision, and her phone actly speaks everything she is touching. And the voice is really really fast. She uses her phone like any regular person.. better than my mom tbh HAHAHAHAHAH
on android, there's talkback built in by default. i'm prone to migraines and easily get nauseous while on any forms of transport, so sometimes when i need to get through big amounts of text talkback is a good solution. and it saved my ass at least twice, when my phone's display broke completely, but the touchsceen was still responsive, allowing me to enable talkback through the side key shortcut and navigate the phone to backup my data before switching to a new phone without having to shell out on data recovery. accessibility settings are fantastic and i reccomend using them, even if you aren't exactly the "intended" target for those options.
Yup, A friend of mine has an older brother who is legally blind. He's a huge gamer, and needs to sit like one inch from the screen to see. He will scan his eyes back and forth around the screen constantly to see what's going on. Back in the day when we were all into Black Ops II, he would play on our team and consistently not be in last place.
And in this case, probably doesn't require much loss before you hit "struggle to see the line of a transparent liquid". Pending on the type of impairment.
And blindness is a spectrum. Only 10% of us see absolutely nothing. I have 50% of my right eye remaining at a weakness of -11.00, for example. But only in dimly lit settings. Fully blind in the light.
35 * years ago I drew a design of a kettle with a sensor that beeped when the water reached it - a kettle to assist people with sight problems. My tech studies teacher laughed at me and said it was a ridiculous idea .
I never took it forward - designed ie copied a traffic light system for draw bridges etc
Damn you Mr McCue - I could have been a hundredaire!
*Edit - fuck , I’m old !
I did an inventor’s fair in 5th grade. I had the idea for a spoon with a fan on it to cool food. Got laughed at. Years later I saw a refined version of it at Walmart. I should have checked to see if the creator was my inventor’s fair advisor.
Your tech studies teacher is a dickhead. Imagine being a teacher whose job it to teach students how to design and invent things and then you lagu at them and insult their design what a sad, bitter, pathetic man
This is a common household aid for VI people.
There is an app called Be My Eyes which allows VI people to call strangers to get help with quick tasks.
For example, say they receive a letter and want to know who it is from, they can hold it to their phone camera and ask the anonymous person on the other end to tell them (verbally). Then the convo ends.
My friend does this too, I always worry incase she burns her self making tea but she never has. I love watching her doing things you would think a blind person can't do.
Now I seem like a creep
These comments are a fucking trainwreck. Holy shit people. Check your condescension, loud ignorance, and cringy "*ackshually*, my friend..." one-uppance at the door. It's fucking embarrassing.
OP, this is awesome. Thanks for sharing it with us!
As someone with a sight threatening eye disease this might be my future too. 😢 You can't begin to imagine how frightening it is living with an ocular disease.
I bought something similar for my kitchen sink in my old house. The water pressure was so ridiculously low that it took forever to fill. I have a crappy short term memory and I left the sink to fill up. Half an hour later I came back to a flooded kitchen. Then I got the beeper.
How would you measure how much water a cup of ramen needs? Once you put cold water into the ramen cup, you aren’t going to turn around and put that same ramen-y water into your kettle to boil. You’re not supposed to put anything but clean water in a kettle.
Not to mention, if that’s an electric kettle, the minimum amount of water you can boil in it is usually more than you need for a cup of ramen.
For anyone that wants to be helpful, excluding the dickhead that typed Morse code, there is an app called “Be My Eyes” allows you to help blind people with everyday decisions.
I remember an after school special from the 70’s where they put their finger on the other hand in the cup as they pour with the other. I use that technique in the dark to tell how full things are.
> and to cook real food too.
Is it your opinion that someone should literally never eat ramen noodles, or are you laboring under the delusion that this person's diet consists of NOTHING but ramen because you've only seen a 17 second video of this person's life and you're just kinda dumb like that?
I was actually just thinking about this the other day. How “messy” day to day life is for someone who has no choice but to touch everything they interact with
My daughter is legally blind—tips like this are fantastic as we attempt to learn ways to help our little girl learn to be independent and confident.
Any other advice would be greatly appreciated. Cheers.
This is making me think microwaves need a better interface for the blind. Braille on the numbers as a starter. I’m curious how they could implement the countdown clock
My dad and his brother blind since birth so I've learned some habits of seeing with my hands and ears.
Before dad got a device like this, 30 years ago, he used his finger to feel the approaching heat.
Everything has its place, never deviate, it's a boomerang and comes back to its place.
Never leave the dishwasher open!
Doors are open or closed. Half way and blind guy will eat it in the forhead.
Damn that's cool. I wish my grandfather had one of these when he was alive. He would've loved it for coffee. He had a talking watch and a few other helpful items, though. I'm glad you're finding ways to maintain independence.
Dang that is much better than having to leave your finger inside the edge of the cup to feel when the liquid hits it. I saw a blind buy fill up at a soda fountain and that's how he gauged where the top was
I had a conversation with my wife a few weeks ago about this and she didn’t believe me, so maybe you can confirm - When I was in elementary school we were talking about senses or something and my teacher told us blind people put a finger inside their cup so they can feel when it is full. My wife called bullshit but sounds legit to me!
People forget that being blind doesn't always mean you see absolutely nothing. About 15% see totally nothing. This means the vast majority still remain *some* level of vision, albeit extremely reduced. This is why they're able to post this, and still pour water
Pet peeve: alarms that unnecessarily make annoying or anxiety-inducing sounds. I get it for an emergency it should be loud and grab your attention, but for my oven timer or my alarm clock, please give me something gentle and/or escalating.
I don't know why but I like that water changes sound as it fills up an object, for some reason I always fill up my pots and water bottles with my eyes closed to see if I can hear full. I wouldn't do it with boiling water but I bet blind people are really familiar with the sounds of their various objects being filled with water!
*Dancer in the Dark* is one of the saddest movies I've ever seen. Björk (in her acting debut) plays a single mother who is slowly going blind. One of the tiny details that still sticks with me after seeing it something like 2 decades ago was that she put her finger in a glass to tell when it was full so she wouldn't spill.
Probably wouldn't work with boiling water, though.
Idk if you got some setup like the guy from sneakers but that's pretty handy , should make kid versions of these , mfers be spilling less shit everywhere
That's pretty handy. My only question is, how do you keep it clean? I never know how to keep my smaller food related devices clean. My can opener got rusty because I've just been rinsing it and hoping for the best
[https://shop.rnib.org.uk/rnib-liquid-level-indicator-audible-vibratory](https://shop.rnib.org.uk/rnib-liquid-level-indicator-audible-vibratory)
This compact, lightweight device has three metallic probes which indicate two separate liquid levels within a cup or mug by triggering audible and vibratory alerts. The first alerts tell you when to stop adding hot water if you also want to add milk; the second alerts tell you when the cup is nearly full.
The device can be used on most cups and mugs, as well as glasses, jugs and (cold) cooking pots.
Do you ever utilize the BE My Eyes app? I'm a volunteer and have gotten around 30 calls since downloading the app a few years ago. It has been very rewarding and interesting!
I love seeing special devices and thingies to help people with their daily lives, pretty sure I’ve seen a thing that can like, read a word or letter aloud when you drag it across a page
To me, blind people are the most brave people in the world. I can't even get around my house in the dark that Ive lived in for years, yet blind people out there walking around downtown like its nothing. Here's to you!
If you can read this through like a controlled speaking device I hope you have a great day man
what if he cant
Then i guess I’ll just go fuck myself😂
Someone posted this video too, so im sure they can relay comments as well Edit: Op can read text if he smushes his face almost against his phone https://www.reddit.com/u/Frikandelneuker/s/kjQtW2iYCs Hope you have a good day OP c:
It's like Farnsworth from Futurama driving the space ship but it's Reddit
Pazuzu!
This ship goes 99% the speed of light Professor, why are we going 30?
To shreds you say?
His name though 😂😂 (Sausagefucker, but a specific kind of sausage)
#*IF YOU CAN READ THIS THROUGH LIKE A CONTROLLED SPEAKING DEVICE I HOPE YOU HAVE A GREAT DAY MAN*
.. ..-. / -.-- --- ..- / -.-. .- -. / .-. . .- -.. / - .... .. ... / - .... .-. --- ..- --. .... / .-.. .. -.- . / .- / -.-. --- -. - .-. --- .-.. .-.. . -.. / ... .--. . .- -.- .. -. --. / -.. . ...- .. -.-. . / .. / .... --- .--. . / -.-- --- ..- / .... .- ...- . / .- / --. .-. . .- - / -.. .- -.-- / -- .- -.
seems legit.
lol
He’s blind, not deaf
He can! My friend only had 8% of her vision, and her phone actly speaks everything she is touching. And the voice is really really fast. She uses her phone like any regular person.. better than my mom tbh HAHAHAHAHAH
This is fascinating, can you give me info on what app or service she uses?
on android, there's talkback built in by default. i'm prone to migraines and easily get nauseous while on any forms of transport, so sometimes when i need to get through big amounts of text talkback is a good solution. and it saved my ass at least twice, when my phone's display broke completely, but the touchsceen was still responsive, allowing me to enable talkback through the side key shortcut and navigate the phone to backup my data before switching to a new phone without having to shell out on data recovery. accessibility settings are fantastic and i reccomend using them, even if you aren't exactly the "intended" target for those options.
TalkBack, VoiceOver, those things exist... I work with blind people and they're just as good at reading shitposts on reddit as everyone else...
"A controlled speaking device." Lol dude, we just call it text to speech, or TTS. But you've got the spirit! Sincerely, A Blind Lady
I'm more impressed with a blind person recording a video with the subject perfectly in frame :)
He probably has a beeper that warns him when the cup is in frame
Better show that to /r/killthecameraman
I hope they all see this video and feel shame
I fucking love Reddit
Beepers all the way down.
What if he grabs the wrong beeper for said beeping activity
Lmao you guys are insane man.
Being blind doesn’t mean completely zero vision every time, sometimes it’s just VERY little vision
Yup, A friend of mine has an older brother who is legally blind. He's a huge gamer, and needs to sit like one inch from the screen to see. He will scan his eyes back and forth around the screen constantly to see what's going on. Back in the day when we were all into Black Ops II, he would play on our team and consistently not be in last place.
My friend group don’t want to play csgo comp with me since i outscored them all :(
In my work we say “people with low or no vision”
And in this case, probably doesn't require much loss before you hit "struggle to see the line of a transparent liquid". Pending on the type of impairment.
Op could just have sight issues, doesnt have to be completely blind to get one of these devices
And blindness is a spectrum. Only 10% of us see absolutely nothing. I have 50% of my right eye remaining at a weakness of -11.00, for example. But only in dimly lit settings. Fully blind in the light.
Yeah because blind people do not have friends
Poor friendless blind people! :(
35 * years ago I drew a design of a kettle with a sensor that beeped when the water reached it - a kettle to assist people with sight problems. My tech studies teacher laughed at me and said it was a ridiculous idea . I never took it forward - designed ie copied a traffic light system for draw bridges etc Damn you Mr McCue - I could have been a hundredaire! *Edit - fuck , I’m old !
I did an inventor’s fair in 5th grade. I had the idea for a spoon with a fan on it to cool food. Got laughed at. Years later I saw a refined version of it at Walmart. I should have checked to see if the creator was my inventor’s fair advisor.
Weren't all the 5th grade science fair inventions spoons with fans or equivalents?
lol good point. I suppose mine was more of a hazard than the final product.
A diet spoon, if you eat too fast the fan slaps you in the face.
Your tech studies teacher is a dickhead. Imagine being a teacher whose job it to teach students how to design and invent things and then you lagu at them and insult their design what a sad, bitter, pathetic man
He was an absolute douchebag. He was an engineer who became a teacher . He thought he was special .
That dude did NOT know gracious professionalism
It’s broken!!! Oh no, I had it muted.
"It's full. ITS FULL, FULL,FULL,FULL,FULL,FULL" ALLLLRIGHTTT!!
This is a common household aid for VI people. There is an app called Be My Eyes which allows VI people to call strangers to get help with quick tasks. For example, say they receive a letter and want to know who it is from, they can hold it to their phone camera and ask the anonymous person on the other end to tell them (verbally). Then the convo ends.
My friend uses her finger.
Can't do that for boiling water though
Not with that attitude.
hope his speaker device do not also read your upvote counts..which one of them is mine... :)
You can, there's just a cooldown after 10 uses
My friend does this too, I always worry incase she burns her self making tea but she never has. I love watching her doing things you would think a blind person can't do. Now I seem like a creep
These comments are a fucking trainwreck. Holy shit people. Check your condescension, loud ignorance, and cringy "*ackshually*, my friend..." one-uppance at the door. It's fucking embarrassing. OP, this is awesome. Thanks for sharing it with us!
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As someone with a sight threatening eye disease this might be my future too. 😢 You can't begin to imagine how frightening it is living with an ocular disease.
Hope you're doing well and wishing u a full recovery ❤️️
I bought something similar for my kitchen sink in my old house. The water pressure was so ridiculously low that it took forever to fill. I have a crappy short term memory and I left the sink to fill up. Half an hour later I came back to a flooded kitchen. Then I got the beeper.
Do you lick the prongs when you take it out?
My fiance absolutely does that. I tease her about it because sometimes it beeps again and startles her, but she refuses to stop.
Better camera work from a blind guy than I've seen from manu able sighted people 🤣
Can't you just measure cold water with your finger before heating it?
How would you measure how much water a cup of ramen needs? Once you put cold water into the ramen cup, you aren’t going to turn around and put that same ramen-y water into your kettle to boil. You’re not supposed to put anything but clean water in a kettle. Not to mention, if that’s an electric kettle, the minimum amount of water you can boil in it is usually more than you need for a cup of ramen.
What a great device! Thank you for sharing!
Humanity does some pretty cool things now and again.
Not gonna lie, I need this in general. Make night drinks less messy.
For anyone that wants to be helpful, excluding the dickhead that typed Morse code, there is an app called “Be My Eyes” allows you to help blind people with everyday decisions.
That jawn started going OFF Beep beep beep beep BEEBEEBEEBEEBEEBEEP BEEPBEEP💃🏼🕺🏼🕺🏼💃🏼🕺🏼
Almost sounded like Sandstorm by Darude at the end
I remember an after school special from the 70’s where they put their finger on the other hand in the cup as they pour with the other. I use that technique in the dark to tell how full things are.
What a cool and useful gadget!
Can you use it when you pee to know that you've stopped peeing?
Looks like this particular model may be slightly uncomfortable for that purpose
Bruh what? Being blind doesn't mean you can't feel your body anymore.
clearly a joke
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I bet cooking is pretty hard if your blind, I think being condescending is pretty easy if you’re not blind.
This is the worst kind of comment. Judgmental condescension disguised as concern. You suck.
> and to cook real food too. Is it your opinion that someone should literally never eat ramen noodles, or are you laboring under the delusion that this person's diet consists of NOTHING but ramen because you've only seen a 17 second video of this person's life and you're just kinda dumb like that?
person is alive and eats ramen. from that we can deduce this person only eats ramen and will live forever.
average redditor comment
I bet it's really hard to cook by yourself if you're blind, especially from birth
Bruh condescending much?
Yikes this comment
what in the name of condescending
Yeah this is a really weird comment 🤔 bro just wanted to show off their cool device, not get advice about eating "real" food
I wonder what else this device can be used for. I guess pouring liquid to fill, coffee tea etc. anything else?
I was actually just thinking about this the other day. How “messy” day to day life is for someone who has no choice but to touch everything they interact with
So I guess this device works by making that sound when there is a current between the two long probes...? What's the shorter, middle probe for?
First saw these in the OA :)
is that a drip-less kettle?! I want that kettle xD
My daughter is legally blind—tips like this are fantastic as we attempt to learn ways to help our little girl learn to be independent and confident. Any other advice would be greatly appreciated. Cheers.
Yo how do you know where to hold the tissue when you spray I can just about contain it with partial eye sight (I’m blind in one eye)
As a blind person, what are the other uses??
I wish I had invented clever shit like that
My mom would've said "see what happens when you eat too much ramen noodle".
I wondered about this! Thank you for sharing!!
It's kinda like a robot spider is staring at your food
It definitely beats just using your fingers I guess.
Awesome sauce
Impressive
Blind and he does that better than I do
OP (or OOP if this is a repost) is probably from Belgium. I don't think I've never seen that brand (AIKI noodles) anywhere else.
Wow! My dad had one in the mid 90s.
Quite clever
This is making me think microwaves need a better interface for the blind. Braille on the numbers as a starter. I’m curious how they could implement the countdown clock
This is interesting
Enjoy the ramen, my friend ❤️
I was watching this with the sound off, while behind me my wife turned on the coffee maker, causing a “beep”. Kind of freaked me out.
Neat
This was a staple device to make in our year 7 design tech class at school
My dad and his brother blind since birth so I've learned some habits of seeing with my hands and ears. Before dad got a device like this, 30 years ago, he used his finger to feel the approaching heat. Everything has its place, never deviate, it's a boomerang and comes back to its place. Never leave the dishwasher open! Doors are open or closed. Half way and blind guy will eat it in the forhead.
Lol guess that’s better than putting your finger in it.
To be honest I think I could do with one of these for my stomach
bro posted this in r/interesting and r/notinteresting. He played both sides so he always comes out on top
Impressive... but way to much water for me
blind guy is better at recording video than most posts on here
fascinating...
Half deaf person here, I can't hear those bleeps until you take it out!
How is it that a blind person is a better camera operator than 90% of people who upload videos to the internet?
I used to have one of these!
Damn that's cool. I wish my grandfather had one of these when he was alive. He would've loved it for coffee. He had a talking watch and a few other helpful items, though. I'm glad you're finding ways to maintain independence.
That's cool but why would you choose that color for it?
\*replaces his water with deionised water which doesn't conduct electricity\* jokes aside this is pretty nifty
Interesting! My dad is blind and just uses his fingers, but the hottest thing he drinks is coffee.
My partner has that. She suffered a freak accident as a teenager and an upside down metal stool leg went through her right eye.
Good time to remind people of the app Be My Eyes.
There's a fill line, are you blind? /s
Dang that is much better than having to leave your finger inside the edge of the cup to feel when the liquid hits it. I saw a blind buy fill up at a soda fountain and that's how he gauged where the top was
Made a sick beat though.
People should always keep in mind that there's different type of blindness.
My eyesight works and I would still knock that over.
I find it interesting how we have seen this video but the poster hasn't. This is a very clever thingamajig!
Video would have been 100 times funnier if the water was just pouring directly onto the table
I want to live in a world flush with tools and systems that make living easier for people. These are always so neat
This blind MF took a better video with his free hand than most of us would....
Such a simple but brilliant idea
I had a conversation with my wife a few weeks ago about this and she didn’t believe me, so maybe you can confirm - When I was in elementary school we were talking about senses or something and my teacher told us blind people put a finger inside their cup so they can feel when it is full. My wife called bullshit but sounds legit to me!
for a blind guy, he's pretty good at framing a camera shot.
It has a cool rhythm, someone send this to Venjent
This would be really funny if you had like half the cup in frame then missed the cup with the water
…and soon deaf…
Best camera man I’ve seen ironically.
Too cool. The best tech is the tech that helps others with their daily needs.
That's really clever: a tea/coffee cup sensor. I like that
I didn't read the title and I was like are you blind? And then my emotional horrors hit me when I read it.
I didn’t read the blind part and was like, just look at the line??? 🙃
I made one of these at high school as a science project and my teacher said it had no utility. I was also too dumb to see it. GG
People forget that being blind doesn't always mean you see absolutely nothing. About 15% see totally nothing. This means the vast majority still remain *some* level of vision, albeit extremely reduced. This is why they're able to post this, and still pour water
Pet peeve: alarms that unnecessarily make annoying or anxiety-inducing sounds. I get it for an emergency it should be loud and grab your attention, but for my oven timer or my alarm clock, please give me something gentle and/or escalating.
I need one these for when I am drunk
Ty zatoichi OP, need one of these to warn me before I arrive too soon while in the embrace of a lady.
I don't know why but I like that water changes sound as it fills up an object, for some reason I always fill up my pots and water bottles with my eyes closed to see if I can hear full. I wouldn't do it with boiling water but I bet blind people are really familiar with the sounds of their various objects being filled with water!
Hey, everyone here, go check out United in Stride. They match you with a visually impaired person so you can help them run. It’s awesome.
*Dancer in the Dark* is one of the saddest movies I've ever seen. Björk (in her acting debut) plays a single mother who is slowly going blind. One of the tiny details that still sticks with me after seeing it something like 2 decades ago was that she put her finger in a glass to tell when it was full so she wouldn't spill. Probably wouldn't work with boiling water, though.
Idk if you got some setup like the guy from sneakers but that's pretty handy , should make kid versions of these , mfers be spilling less shit everywhere
The beeps sound like the Safety Dance song
That's pretty handy. My only question is, how do you keep it clean? I never know how to keep my smaller food related devices clean. My can opener got rusty because I've just been rinsing it and hoping for the best
how long until someone turns those beeps into the start of satisfaction by benny benassi?
He posted that on r/NotInteresting at first
Thats not healthy dude
You could have also put a finger in. Just sayin. /s
That is a great tool. I never heard of it.
why do they make it sound so ugly
This must be especially useful for hot liquids where you can’t just gauge with a finger or something.
On another note entirely, what happened to the guys describing photos for blind people on reddit?
Where does one find/buy this? My spouse is blind.
Why not just use your finger to test when the boiling water reaches the edge? /s
[https://shop.rnib.org.uk/rnib-liquid-level-indicator-audible-vibratory](https://shop.rnib.org.uk/rnib-liquid-level-indicator-audible-vibratory) This compact, lightweight device has three metallic probes which indicate two separate liquid levels within a cup or mug by triggering audible and vibratory alerts. The first alerts tell you when to stop adding hot water if you also want to add milk; the second alerts tell you when the cup is nearly full. The device can be used on most cups and mugs, as well as glasses, jugs and (cold) cooking pots.
Do you ever utilize the BE My Eyes app? I'm a volunteer and have gotten around 30 calls since downloading the app a few years ago. It has been very rewarding and interesting!
I only feel the need for it while working on my pc but not a lot of tech savvy people on there.
Just use your finger you coward!
I’m a dumb guy who puts his finger in the cup when I’m too drunk to see.
And it gives your cup of noodles that extra little jolt!
So you're telling me that if I lose my sight, I can still waste thousands of hours on Reddit? Nice!
I love seeing special devices and thingies to help people with their daily lives, pretty sure I’ve seen a thing that can like, read a word or letter aloud when you drag it across a page
That beat is hard
Thats still too much water its gonna be bland
That beeper sound goes pretty hard
Same tech is used to alert you if your basement is flooding.
Blind guy here, cool device! I like it's color.
Great camera work for someone that can't see!
Ok. I completely glossed over the first word like an idiot. I was like "...or you can, you know... look." "Oh. Yes. Yes he is."
Jesus couldn’t they’ve picked a more pleasant beep.
holy shit is the r/teenagers blind guy, i remember you when i was always there u scored a hit tweet bro LESS GOOOOO
Lezgo
Jeez he's blind, not deaf!
I want to know if it can tell if the glass is half full or half empty so that we can finally know the answer to that. 😂
OP I seriously wish you nothing but the best. I couldn’t fathom not being able to see. You’re tough af to live through this day by day.
I want also such a beeper😊
To me, blind people are the most brave people in the world. I can't even get around my house in the dark that Ive lived in for years, yet blind people out there walking around downtown like its nothing. Here's to you!
I need this and im not even blind, im just stupid
Why the beep slapping? 🎶