![]() ![]() You should always know where your towel is, and I’ve always thought the white cane is a bit like that for a blind person. If you’re a Douglas Adams fan, and you’ve read the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy series, you’ll know the whole meme that was going on through that series about one’s towel. With technology the way it is, there should be all sorts of things that you can put in your white cane. I’ve always thought that the white cane is unutilized real estate. It’s interesting to me, and they had a 30% off deal to buy the WeWALK smart cane. And I’ve been watching this product for a while. You may remember all the way back in episode 76, Nick Zammarelli demonstrated the WeWALK smart cane. I feel like I have an obligation to disclose this because when Bonnie and I were talking in the Bonnie bulletin last week, I said that I don’t really go for the Black Friday thing, but I did get tempted by something. So you get a breather from me, aren’t you lucky? Well, the Black Friday bug finally did bite me. And then we’ll be taking a break until the very end of January. The final one will be released on the 19th of December, New Zealand time. This is the third to last Mosen at large podcast of 2021. Is anybody going to be particularly sad to see the back of another pandemic ridden year? I think many of us are looking forward to a recharge, and here at New Zealand, we have a nice long break over summer. Jonathan Mosen: Welcome to episode 160 and to December, 2021. This week: what are your top 10 holiday songs of all time? Your Chromebook has talked back-built in, and if you own a smartphone, do you still need a dedicated blindness device when an app could do the same thing? And this is Mosen at Large, the show that’s got the blind community talking. You can read the full transcript below, download the transcript in Microsoft Word format, or download the transcript as an accessible PDF file. This transcript is made possible thanks to funding from InternetNZ. ![]()
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