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The problem with walking backwards is that you can’t see
where you’re going.
The solution is a visor cap consisting of an external camera
on the rear head strap which can plug into your iPhone’s
lightening port or your Android phone’s USB port. Your
phone attaches to the front of the
visor and hangs in front
of your eyes, providing a screen to see where you’re going,
when you’re walking backward. When you’re done walking
backwards and want to head back where you came from,
just flip up the visor and refocus your vision to the path in
front of you.
Not even vaguely related ...
Reading_20while_20walking
[normzone, May 30 2022]
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This is the best walking backwards idea I have seen on this site in the last half hour [+] |
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//lightening// good because otherwise the weight of the phone might unbalance the device |
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Is there a walking upside down on hands version? |
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Xenzag, just flip the visor upside down and snuggly
(but not too snuggly) wear it around your neck so
the phone dangles in front of your eyes while
you’re upside down. |
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Useful for when we need to walk things back [+]. |
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+ Great idea and a bun for the word *backwalker*. |
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(Not someone who walks on your back, that is
another kind of backwalker) |
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I am a huge fan of people who walk on your back, and have paid much money for it. Especially around audit time each year ... |
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Kinda redundant with the phone's front facing "selfie" cam,
don't ya think? |
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21Q, our engineers had the same thought as you,
but when they tried it, the backwalking tester’s
head blocked a significant portion of the path
behind them, creating a dangerous blind spot. In
fact, we lost several test subjects to open manhole
covers when testing that method out. |
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That sounds less like a camera issue and more like a manhole cover planning problem. |
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It’s a dangerous world, normzone, with ineptitude
everywhere you look. I know — I’ve contributed a
lot of that ineptitude to the world. |
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I'm not good enough at spatial reasoning to
answer this question for myself: |
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If you are using a backwards-walking visor,
does it help more the have the video mirrored L-
R like a selfie camera, or no mirroring at all? |
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Riding a bike backwards is easier if you cross
your arms. Same same, or different? |
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