Blind boy uses sonar like a dolphin

this will amaze you.

youtube.com/watch?v=DpBm4KoWsrY

Amazing indeed.

Computer games?

Have you tried it? There’s an article arguing that anybody could learn this.
http://www.slate.com/id/2154696/ I’m half skeptical, half ready to spend the next ten years of my life perfecting my chirping technique. Apart from motivation, what role, if any, do you think losing his eyesight played?
Does that change a person’s other senses?

My feelings are hurt that nobody responded to my (more accurately titled) thread on this. :snivel:

That’s nothing. NOTHING! Blind Lemon Jefferson was blind, and HE learned how to play the GUITAR! That must have been WAY more difficult.

Is the sound that good on video games that you can tell where things are to shoot and aim at them? It looked like they had a good sounds system but I dunno. Pretty amazing kid.

Yep and Stevie Wonder wrote sang and played all the instruments for some of his albums as well

Yep and Stevie Wonder wrote sang and played all the instruments for some of his albums as well[/quote]

Not only that, Stevie Wonder actually became a driving instructor. I know cos my dad keeps shouting at other drivers, asking them if he taught them to drive.

Yep and Stevie Wonder wrote sang and played all the instruments for some of his albums as well[/quote]

Not only that, Stevie Wonder actually became a driving instructor. I know cos my dad keeps shouting at other drivers, asking them if he taught them to drive.[/quote]

As Lenny Bruce once said, referring to how crooked the then-DA for San Francisco was:

“This guy coulda got Ray Charles a Class 1 Driver’s Licence…”

Now what they need to do is learn him some Zen-style kung-fu, and give him a “cane” that unfolds into a pair of billy-clubs / nunchucks.

(“Daredevil” comic reference. I can be the “Bullseye” stand-in since I hit the wastebasket oh, six out of ten times.)