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Soon 'smart glasses' that could help the blind to see
Researchers have developed new 'Star Trek-style' smart glasses that could transform the lives of blind and partially-sighted people.
According to a report, the glasses don’t replace lost vision but assist with spatial awareness and this will also be the first large-scale test of smart glasses and augmented reality for sight enhancement worldwide.
The joint project between the University of Oxford and the Royal National Institute of Blind People, will first create 100 pairs to test on 1,000 people.
‘Smartcanes’ made by IIT-Delhi team to help 60 blind students in city=
Lab for visually impaired gets Sh4.5mn GE donation
Kenya is among several African countries set to benefit from a skills transfer programme supported by General Electric (GE) the global infrastructure leader.
The citizenship programme dubbed ‘Kujenga’ aims at empowering people by building valuable skills, equipping communities with new tools and technology, and elevating ideas that will help solve Africa’s challenges.
Start-ups coming up with new applications for the visually impaired
A host of applications that help the visually impaired navigate the world- both digital and real- is being developed by about half a dozen startups that are also gaining investor attention.
These ventures which are building mobile applications, braille enabled printers and personal devices are enthused by policy support in this year's union budget to increase production of braille textbooks and currency notes with braille markings.
Hyderabad firm develops 'smart shoes' for visually impaired and athletes
Secunderabad (Andhra Pradesh) based Ducere Technologies has launched the haptic footwear under their wearable technology brand Lechal (meaning "take me there" in Hindi) that helps the visually impaired navigate from one place to another.
Sight loss glasses prototype hailed
A PAIR of smart glasses that enable those suffering from sight loss to see obstacles and faces has been named one of 10 finalists in a Google charity competition.
THE Google Impact Challenge is run by the technology giant and asks UK-based charities how they would change the world through innovative technology.
Dragons' Den star and entrepreneur Peter Jones is on the judging panel, and one of the finalists is the smart glasses prototype from the Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB).
Visually impaired smart glasses shortlisted in Google challenge
A project to develop smart glasses which can help blind and partially sighted people see shapes and obstacles has been named as one of 10 finalists in this year’s Google Impact Challenge.
Created in partnership between the RNIB and Oxford University, the team has developed a high-tech, cost effective pair of smart glasses which its says will maximise the remaining vision the wearer has.
A 3D camera attached to the glasses captures images of a person’s environment and processes that information to identify shapes and object nearby.
Students drawn by a love of science
Hong Kong students demonstrated a device that helps visually impaired children learn drawing and mathematics at the fifth Shanghai International Youth Science and Technology Expo yesterday.
Despite being known as an "Eye-Pad," the device presented by a team from the Hong Kong Chinese Women's College is most certainly low-tech, made of velcro tape, straws and cotton twine.
Despite being known as an "Eye-Pad," the device presented by a team from the Hong Kong Chinese Women's College is most certainly low-tech, made of velcro tape, straws and cotton twine.
Users wear the device on their wrist. It features a reel of twine that sits on the back of the hand and runs through a straw to an attachment on the user's forefinger.
Touchscreen to feature display with texture
Electronic devices may soon introduce touchscreens with texture, allowing the creation of Braille reading for the visually impaired.
Researchers from Japanese touchscreen maker NLT Technologies disclosed how they were able to use a variant of electrovibration on a 4.1in wide touchscreen prototype to create localised friction (at multiple touch-points) and thus cause the perception of texture.
Researchers from Japanese touchscreen maker NLT Technologies disclosed how they were able to use a variant of electrovibration on a 4.1in wide touchscreen prototype to create localised friction (at multiple touch-points) and thus cause the perception of texture.
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