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It's cool to build something, but for practicality how's this going to beat texting each other on the phones you already have in your pockets? Second, unless y

It's cool to build something, but for practicality how's this going to beat texting each other on the phones you already have in your pockets? Second, unless you have speech recognition, you will still have to look away to type a new message. Third, this won't be real eye contact (because your friend will be looking at the badge, not at your face), but rather the fake eye contact us neurodivergent people have to use to mask and make neurotypicals feel comfortable. Not everyone actually likes constant eye contact even among neurotypical people, it's quite intense. But building something is still cool ;)

andrewstuart 2y ago
>> how's this going to beat texting each other on the phones you already have in your pockets? It would be nice to be able to look at each other and talk with glances down to the badge. Having a conversation with a deaf person via a phone really takes you out of the experience of being in a one to one conversation. I'm thinking a little light that blinks when I am talking would give a visual cue to the deaf conversation member that I am speaking and draw their attention to the badge.