Simon Willison’s Weblog

6th November 2017 - Link Blog

How technology helped a blind athlete run free at the New York Marathon. Fascinating piece on technology to help blind people better navigate the world—combing GPS and chest-mounted ultrasonic sonar.

Posted 6th November 2017 at 4:58 pm

Recent articles

Publishing WASM wheels to PyPI for use with Pyodide - 13th June 2026
Claude Fable is relentlessly proactive - 11th June 2026
Initial impressions of Claude Fable 5 - 9th June 2026

This is a link post by Simon Willison, posted on 6th November 2017.

accessibility 95

Monthly briefing

Sponsor me for $10/month and get a curated email digest of the month's most important LLM developments.

Pay me to send you less!

Sponsor & subscribe