Yeah, the audio grafiti thing sounds cool. I'm sure it will get horribly abused within 5 minutes and require constant vigilance to prevent people from being insulted when they pass wal-mart, but when I saw the thread title my first thought was "Signs, definitely."
Have you heard of the Orcam? The idea is that it tries to recognize objects, but you have to record what the objects are. If this could be integrated with the cloud, so that it can recognize things that other people have labeled, that'd be neat. (Also if it wasn't $3k for a piece of equipment that would be much better integrated with other devices or software, such as the vOICe.) The result would be kinda like TapTapSee, but it could recognize whatever you're looking at on the fly because it uses a tiny earpiece camera.
Someone needs to toss a few million into all these disparate technologies and license them all into a single suite for existing platforms. You'd still have the option to use them individually, of course, but as it stands I think the vOICe is the only one that is trying to do multiple things at once, and they've been around since, what, 1998?
Having all of these things together would be much better than having to work out what you do and don't need and switch between them (which is often going to be a slow and clunky process). Like, if I could combine your app with whatever has surpassed Blindsquare, a cloud-based Orcam, TapTapSee, and the vOICe (or a more object-oriented color-based image-to-sound program, like Iodimony but better), that'd cover a ton of stuff right there. I mean, information overload and drowning out important external sounds would be an issue to address (if I'm crossing a street I'll probably want to mute everything, for example--I would not trust any app or gadget I am currently aware of or imagining as more than a distraction in that situation). But I think I'd use TapTapSee more if I didn't have to go through the process of switching and opening apps and positioning the camera and finding the lighting... so it's mostly good for identifying money, and in spite of all those testimonials I have not gotten it to identify many cans or bottles with more than color. I'm not spending $3k for an Orcam if I can get the vOICe to do most of the work for the price of an ordinary headcam, but if I can get the Orcam software, the vOICe, and TapTapSee to use the same camera at the same time, maybe even as a background app, that'd be worth... $30, at least .
Umm. I rambled again.
Yeah, I like your idea, and I agree with Jeff that overhanging obstacles and sign/fence posts that are at dangerously far-from-90°-angles are things that I and many others would very much like to know about before the injury.
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George... Don't do that.