New GPS gadget for visually impaired
The lives of disabled people are much more complicated than the average person. A simple thing like turning around in the street can be very complicated. Fir hundreds of years visually impaired people have used sticks to feel which direction to walk in and to avoid falling and bumping into obstacles. Now Israeli design student Noam Klofer has found a new more intelligent solution to the age old problem. He studies at Michlelet Hadassah in the field of renewal in industrial design, and was asked to come up with a gadget which was entered into the inovision 2010 competition and the theme of this years design contest, health and disability. Noam’s new gadget is called VIA, Visually Impaired Assistant and uses GPS and a sound system, it is worn on the hand and has four cameras attached to it using Video Motion Detection and tells the person wearing the device which direction to walk in to get to a desired location!
markfriesen1979
November 20, 2010Always count on the Jew’s to come up with breakthrough inventions!
EncompassedRunner
November 19, 2010wow, what a gift to humanity … I can just imagine this would be particularly helpful for a sight-impaired person without a support system … I’m definitely going to look into this