Tools
Braille Label Maker
Embosses tactile labels so containers can be identified without sight.
Scenario
Blindness
Everyone lost their sight in a fortnight.
It spread by contact and it took only vision. Nobody died of it directly. Society failed anyway, in about three weeks, because every system anyone had built assumed somebody could read.
What kills you
A city of people who cannot see, including the organised ones.
Rules
- 01Count your steps. Everywhere. From day one.
- 02Label everything by touch immediately.
- 03Water and food get sorted before anything else.
- 04Whoever can still see will not admit it.
The kit
5 itemsThe world has to be rewritten by hand and it is easier while you can still see.
Time is the first structure to disappear, and the first worth rebuilding.
Tools
Talking Clock
Announces the time aloud. Useful without sight and in full darkness.
Stairs are the single most dangerous object in a blind household.
Tools
Textured Grip Tape
Adds grip and a tactile edge to steps, handles and controls.
Purpose built, cheap, and immediately better than a broom handle.
Tools
Long Handle Cane
A support cane for walking rather than for detecting ground.
Because months of nothing to think about is its own injury.
Reading
Audio Book Player
Long-form listening on a device that is not a phone and does not need a network.
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