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The modified ball emits a steady audio signal. The net and the boundaries of the court itself emit their own different, easily distinguishable audio signals. Thus, a sonic "image" is transmitted to the players, who form mental maps of the game, and play it.
Audible Balls
http://www.tiresias...eports/projects.htm
Yup. Balls for the blind, that emit sound. [bristolz, Nov 23 2001, last modified Oct 21 2004]
More loud balls
http://www.beyondsi...m/games_&_gifts.htm
Okay, so they're not tennis balls but soccer (football) [bristolz, Nov 23 2001, last modified Oct 21 2004]
Deef's link
http://snltranscrip...pts/82skannon.phtml
[Use [link] to create links to URLs, don't quote them in annotations.] The SNL skit doesn't have all that much to do with this idea (other than that there's a tennis star in it), so feel free to delete this link if you're also deleting the annotation(s). [jutta, Nov 23 2001]
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Many things incredibly similar have already been baked, so if this is I won't be at all surprised.
Now they just need to do it with driving. Of course, with the driving skills of people who CAN see, they should fit right in. |
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This was on Saturday Night Live, when Stevie Wonder was the guest, as part of a fake ad for an auto-focus camera "So advanced, so simple, even Stevie Wonder can use it." http://snltranscripts.jt.org/scripts/82skannon.phtml |
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ok...not exactly the same...at all. |
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The thing you're writing about sounds like a cheap joke (couldn't read it). This isn't a joke... |
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I seem to remember a blind driver break some kind of speed record on a solo piece of track with a seeing passenger directing his steering......... |
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Forehand, backhand, forehand, backhand, forehand, backhand, deuce! |
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And how do you think they got to be blind in the first place? |
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Tennis for the Blind is baked. A quick bit of googling registered a few hits though nowhere could I find how the game was set up. I would guess that they must either have a bell or other noise emitting device in the ball or that they have a seeing helper shouting out directions.
[swoosh of tennis racket]
Seeing-eye person: "Nope! Missed it again!".
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Tennis I haven't seen, but I remember seeing as a kid baseball for the blind, with a ball that beeped in different ways, depending on what it was doing. |
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Not recommended for the newly-blind. |
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Reminds me of a joke where a blind football team kick hell out a troop of morris dancers........ |
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If you ever seen "dude where's my car" It may sound like a bad idea to wear a pager on the tennis court |
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