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Vibrating vests translate music for deaf concertgoers (2023)
Author : sargstuff
Score : 30 points
Date : 2024-03-02 20:06 UTC (2 days ago)
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| krzat wrote:
| It's fascinating how plug & play our brain is. Just consistently
| supply information to it and voila, you have a new sense.
|
| One day we may have a marketplace where you can purchase a sense
| of north or your spouse's body temperature, it will be
| interesting and weird.
| Vecr wrote:
| The sense of north is (was) already a thing. It kind of sucked
| though, and injecting a HUD into the front of a night vision
| tube is a lot more practical.
| edwcross wrote:
| I've seen a few hacky projects (e. g.
| https://www.carlosterminel.com/wearable-compass) over the
| years about haptic belts, and I've been wanting to try one of
| these, but I've never seen them commercialized. Have you
| tried them? Otherwise, could you please describe why the
| sense of north "kind of sucked"?
|
| In my experience, having a flagship Android phone with
| unreliable compass such that I cannot even get my bearings
| when leaving a subway station, is extremely annoying. Such a
| belt would seem more useful to me.
| vincnetas wrote:
| There are languages without the terms "Left, Right, Front, and
| Behind." These cultures use "North, South, East, and West"
| their whole lives no matter if they are in a room or in the
| woods. The result is a compass brain. They always know how they
| are oriented.
|
| https://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/29/magazine/29language-t.htm...
| hinkley wrote:
| I'm curious how or if that affects physical training, like
| gymnastics or martial arts.
| hanniabu wrote:
| No, they don't magically have some sense of north. They're
| just used to using it so much that they have a lot of
| points of reference to know which direction is which no
| matter where they are.
| anononaut wrote:
| It's just a succinct abstraction.
| arjvik wrote:
| Not necessarily just a sense of reference, but also a
| practice of always keeping in mind what direction one is
| when changing direction (mentally summing up the deltas
| in direction).
|
| I do this when driving - I always know what direction I'm
| headed, even in an unfamiliar place (unless there are a
| ton of non-right-angle turns that confuse me, and then I
| have to check a map).
| hinkley wrote:
| Blocking a punch or doing a kata also has no concept of
| north. It's usually bilateral. So if you don't have left
| or right... Do you pretend your face is north and
| instruct that way?
| thfuran wrote:
| I'm not sure what you mean. Whichever way you happen to
| be facing, you can use an earth-relative coordinate
| system to disambiguate limbs rather than a person-
| relative one. I guess don't practice martial arts while
| standing on the north or south pole and you'll be fine.
| cebu wrote:
| Others do not have language for absolute directions. The
| Murrinhpatha in Australia. https://www.degruyter.com/document
| /doi/10.1515/opli-2016-000... I think the Piraha may only use
| directions relative to the river
| radarsat1 wrote:
| Reminds me of Cutaneous Grooves (2003)
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| https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1076/jnmr.32.4.369.18...
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| Although that idea was more about using haptics as a medium to
| compose explicitly for rather than translate existing music to.
| dang wrote:
| Url changed from
| https://old.reddit.com/r/gadgets/comments/15b1d3z/vibrating_...,
| which points to this.
| gnicholas wrote:
| This guy does a lot of great work on sensory substitution. [1] He
| runs a company that makes tools that help with tinnitus and other
| chronic issues/disabilities, and he writes books about the brain.
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| 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4c1lqFXHvqI
| whartung wrote:
| I wonder if they would need a vest at the last hard rock/metal
| concert I went to.
|
| Sheesh, I think they almost blew off my glasses with one of their
| drum/bass hits that night.
|
| Its interesting that now we have tech to let the deaf participate
| in concert events while at the same time you have folks like me
| cramming earplugs as deep as they'll go to be able to enjoy them
| comfortably.
| 0cf8612b2e1e wrote:
| Not even just concerts. I went to a movie theater recently and
| could not believe how deafeningly loud it was. This was for a
| stupid comedy film, not a boomy action flick.
| RajT88 wrote:
| The show which you could feel the music the most (at least that
| I have been to) is GWAR.
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| You'd think they wouldn't have great audio guys working on
| their shows, but you'd be wrong. The drums, the guitars, the
| bass, it all rumbles through you in the best way.
|
| If you're deaf, go check out a GWAR show! Bring a rain poncho,
| if you're not familiar with the band.
| chiph wrote:
| I used to work for the firm that sells "The Vest", which helps
| people with cystic fibrosis and other lung problems clear their
| airways (I worked on a different product).
|
| It rapidly inflates/deflates to vibrate the chest cavity (not
| unlike attending a metal concert and standing in front of the
| speaker stack) to dislodge mucus. Using it can significantly
| increase the life span of people who haven't/can't have a lung
| transplant.
|
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rZbDcPiJv0
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