Jeff and Pete offer another follow up interview with guests they previously interviewed with today’s visit with Marco trujillo, a co-founder of the Sunu Band. the Sunu Band is a smart bracelet that serves many purposes: it offers sonar-based navigation to detect obstacles up to 15 feet away; it possesses the Sunu tag, a tile-like locator disk to help find your items, and a haptic watch to discretely tell the time. In addition, Marco...
Blind Abilities presents this in depth follow up with Bin Liu and Arjun Mali, Co-founders of Imerciv Inc. and creators of the Buzz Clip. Join Jeff and Pete as they check in on this fascinating navigational device for the blind and visually impaired. This interview closes the loop from their initial chat back on January 17, 2016, which you can listen to here. Since then, the Buzz Clip has moved through its Indiegogo fund raiser campaign, and...
Blind Abilities visits the State Services for the Blind (SSB) in St. Paul, Minnesota. Jeff Thompson talks to the Transition Coordinator, Sheila Koenig about the Transition program for students age 14-21 transitioning from High School to College and the Workplace. Sheila talks about developing programs and creating opportunities through networking and partnerships across the state and Bridging all the entities to help the transition students...
Christopher Venter, AKA TheBlindScooterGuy on all social networks, talks about the process leading up to his TEDX Talk presentation from Capetown, South Africa. As you may recall Christopher interviewed with us just this last summer telling us about his journey from South Africa to Dublin Ireland on his 50cc Scooter Bike leading to his Blindness and how he is eating that elephant called Blindness... one bite at a time. You can find his just...
Wood Working is something that people have low expectations for the blind and probably think that it is too dangerous for their son/daughter or any person with limited or no vision to get involved with as a hobby or profession. Training centers across the states have proven that wood working can be done safely and successfully and require students to take the class not to actually become a carpenter but to challenge their clients to overcome a...
Dan Parker joins Pete Lane and Jeff Thompson as he talks about his new goal of building his own car from scratch, designing welding, bending and knotting. Staying busy and figuring out how to do it Blind. Dan has an idea that started when he lost his sight after a racing accident, Dan wants to plants the seeds for developing an autonomous apparatus for a 3-wheeled bicycle. Something that people could use to get out and about and having the...
The Blue Collar Blind: Not Necessarily About Blindness derives from talking to so many people who met the challenges of blindness and forged forward. They are who they are because they had the drive to succeed at their ambitions. They carved out their own niche in life and are living out their passions. Not Necessarily About blindness is the fact that some of us don not look at the world in the same way and see opportunity where others see...
Wood Working is something that people have low expectations for the blind and probably think that it is too dangerous for their son/daughter or any person with limited or no vision to get involved with as a hobby or profession. Training centers across the states have proven that wood working can be done safely and successfully and require students to take the class not to actually become a carpenter but to challenge their clients to overcome a...
Wrap-up, Blindfold Racer National Championship 2016, A Follow-up With Project Starfish Blind Abilities presents this follow up interview with Project Starfish after their successful completion of the first ever Blindfold Racer National Championship. Join Jeff Thompson and Pete Lane and their guests, Nazreen, Labisha and Karl, as they break down the challenges and achievements of this unique worldwide competition. The challenge spanned 60...
The Blind Abilities Team visited the University of Minnesota to talk to Dr. Mona Minkara in her office about her job and how she navigated her journey with vision loss. Dr. Mona Minkara is a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the University of Minnesota in the Department of Chemistry. Her goal is to one day obtain a faculty position that would give her the opportunity to teach and do research. You can find out more about Dr. Mona Minkara on her...