| Asking the Internet: Gifts taking eye problems into account... |
 Asking the Internet: Gifts taking eye problems into account...
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Mar. 29th, 2011 @ 04:32 pm 
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So, a friend of a friend has just suffered an injury to one eye. Currently has no sight, doctors have some hope that they *maybe* can reclaim *some* sight.
In the meantime, he's hospitalised. I think everyone can agree that being in hospital is boring and annoying and it sucks even before you factor in only having one functional eye, which tends to make doing anything that involves looking at stuff annoying, up to and including things like reading.
So. Dude is a nice guy, and also a nerd. Does anyone have any suggestions for toys/games/entertainments that don't require depth perception or a lot of visual focus in general, and can be taken to and played with at a hospital?
I'm also planning to troll thinkgeek and the like for fun things that look like they'll work without depth perception etc as entertainment, but it's entirely possible there's things that wouldn't occur to me at all.
(My default gift for people in hospital is something like Lego, but I don't know how annoying Lego would be without depth perception...)
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| From: | ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png) sqbr |
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March 29th, 2011 09:47 am (UTC) |
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Is this someone I know? Either way that sucks. Hmm.
Anyway. Hmm. The first thing that comes to mind is an mp3 player and some audiobooks. As for interactive things...I shall ponder.
Edited 2011-03-29 09:53 am (UTC)
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| From: | sami |
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March 29th, 2011 12:50 pm (UTC) |
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I think you probably do - most likely far better than I do. That thing about not putting people's names on the interwebs is making me twitch so I shall PM you.
Audiobooks is a good idea but it's under the umbrella of things his wife is probably on top of, since she'll also know his tastes, I imagine.
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March 29th, 2011 11:51 pm (UTC) |
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Thanks.
Yeah, that's what I was thinking, but it's all I can think of!
1. I'd say you know - committee of a certain uni nerd organization around the time you joined.
2. In thinking about things that need only one eye, the best I've come ip with is periscope. Tired mouse is tired and should not be active on the internet.
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