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Human Echolocation Training | Daniel Kish
Daniel Kish is a visionary who lost his sight but found a way to see the world with sound – through echolocation. Now, the President and founder of World Access for the Blind extends his skills to people with visual impairment, teaching them to use echolocation for enhanced navigation and independence. He has taught this skill to over 500 blind children around the world.
wobblecopterrrr
Dude needs one friend to get him a pair of glasses with smoked lenses
Gustave13
13andido
Ted Talk from 8 years ago https://youtu.be/uH0aihGWB8U?si=42Ft-jKvJNXfSd7f
safetybagel
What are the poles for
domillomew
seems like bullshit
NotThatPrivate
I want to say I saw something similar a few years back with a younger guy. They tested him in a quite room inside and it just didn't work
FattsoCattso
This is so cool
Billis75
WorksForTheHutts
I saw him ride a bike down a street with traffic in a video. I wonder if I could find it. It's been years.
LondoMollari58
Cool as fuck.
Wiseguy1982
https://youtu.be/fnH7AIwhpik?feature=shared
StarscreamAndHutch
PresterJon
Is this where the audio from that one aesop song comes from?
SpiderTrike2000
Leave the cane behind ....
hwatL4bloopy
It's a cool skill. I sorta picked it up when I was like 12 or something. I was really bad at meditation and used the quiet time to hear the walls around me. I didn't get the prefrontal part of meditation until I was 16.
FightingRevengeOfYourMom
I can't be the first person to mention Daredevil?
Affray
Come, train in my gauntlet. Your prize is escaping with your life. And Daredevil powers.
SerialChickenLover
Does he have glass eyes, or is it because he’s blind that he doesn’t move them and they seem like a doll’s eyes?
CyborgScribe
Both his eyes are glass.
SixHourDays
someone hasn't watched The Last Of Us
Xiuhtocatl
Soberyn
Gustave13
fformulaa
Remarkable. Absolutely amazing what the human body is capable of. My echolocation skills start and end at me screaming "marco!", over and over
controlsthepresent
Polo!
idonob
My echo location is in a nearly pitch dark cave - but I can usually see some shadows flickering on the wall.
Wait, echolocation? Not echo location? Yeah nah, I can't use echolocation outside of the echo location.
nomorehate
You'd be surprised how many people will answer if you just shout "Marco!" in a crowded place lol
fformulaa
I will have to test theory out!
nomorehate
Did it in Walmart with my mom the other night, heard at least 2 "POLO!" in response haha
Eridianne
Listen, I've taught blind folk and you'd be fuckin shocked at how much information they're working with. Biggest surprised for me was dude telling me he knows a door is open or closed and the approx. size of the ajoined hallway off the 'pressure' he felt. The reason I think -this- is fuckin nonsense is for the same reason I think every other silver bullet is nonsense- why the fuck isn't everyone doing it?
trickflo
Seems to me like even if it works its a lot of work for someone probably already dealing with a lot for minimal benifit since the technique would be useless in any loud enviroment and hes still using the cane so obviously doesnt full replace the less work methods just adds a bit more maybe.
LukeWarmTaunTaun
Did you really just call a blind man a VISIONary
TheDingo8MyBaby
OMG! :) I felt terrible for thinking the same thing :) It’s nice you know I have kindred spirits in this world :)
Weraim
Blindonary needs to be the term
IAmNotNSAsodonotbeparanoid
I see what you did there
nomorehate
But he didn't
Khelan2050
He heard it though.
hajimedj
Reminds me of that black kid who mastered it but eventually died of brain cancer
uden10
I remember watching a documentary about him years ago, both of them were there as examples of humans who can do echolocation.
Affray
That's a fun story.
jridley
There was a documentary I think on NPR on this - apparently if you keep at it, the brain actually eventually wires between your ears and your vision systems and you get "visual" feedback from the echoes.
marsilies
I saw an episode of Brain Games on Nat Geo over a decade ago that made that point (see near the end of this video clip): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mGgtRG2da1c
Affray
1)When I was young and loved the idea of ninja shit, me and a friend would blackout blindfold ourselves and blackout a room to hang out in.
Affray
2)We'd spend the better part of a day in the room blindfolded then go out that night, usually with no moon. The result is pretty excellent
Affray
3)night vision. We then started romping around familiar forests with the blindfolds on to see if we could navigate without sight, one of us
Affray
4)stayed sighted for safety. After enough time banging our heads and almost breaking ankles we got good enough that we felt like we could
Affray
5)sense everything around us without seeing them. We never clicked of snapped for echolocation, just didn't think of it as kids. We did
Fravash
His eyes are clearly open.
ironymus
His eyes had you be removed at the age of a toddler due to eye cancer. What you see are prosthetics to allow him a dignified life: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Kish
Fravash
Did your hair get messed up when the joke flew over your head?
ironymus
Ad a /s to your comments if you mean it sarcastic, yes some jokes get over my head. What some call a joke is a severe violation of human dignity for others
muffintop666
Rule 1 of internet sarcasm; /s
Fravash
I do as I please.
muffintop666
then don't complain