Smartphones have become a part of our day-to-day lives, but for those with visual impairments, accessing one can be a challenge. This can be especially difficult if one is using a cane that must be put aside in order to interact with a phone. The GesturePod offers another interface alternative that actually attaches to the […]
While there are tools that allow the visually impaired to interact with computers, conveying spacial relationships, such as those needed for gaming, is certainly a challenge. To address this, researchers have come up with DualPanto. As the name implies, the system uses two pantographs for location IO, and on the end of each is a […]
In order to help those with visual impairments navigate streets, college student Satinder Singh has come up with an innovative solution that literally pokes the user in the right direction. Singh’s system, called DeepWay, uses a chest-mounted camera to take images of the road that a wearer is walking down, then feeds this information to a […]
Gleb Kanunnikau is a designer and trainer based in Minsk. He is part of a group of volunteers running a meetup group and an open laboratory bringing together people from the tech and education/media and experimental, hackerspace scene trying to solve a few very local and very practical problems that don’t seem to be getting […]
It seems like part of the Arduino projects lately hang around “visually impaired” solutions. This is the research from Alex Tomic form USI in Lugano. The “Bat Goggles” are a general-purpose set of visual aids to assist those with low or no vision to sense obstacles. While the original project envisioned the sensors being attached […]
Happy to discover the HALO project actually won the HUMANA Contest. Check out the other winners. HALO (Haptic Assisted Locating of Obstacles) is a solution for visually impaired people to perceive obstacles around them. Here’s a little description: I recently watched an episode of Stan Lee’s Superhumans which featured a blind man who used a […]
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