Haptic is a navigation shoe especially designed for visually-impaired people. It is equipped with Bluetooth, GPS and a vibrating system, which work together to guide the blind people to their destinations.
How to quickly and conveniently find your car among the hundreds and even thousands ones? The camera-based ‘Find Your Car’ system installed in Santa Monica Place may help you quite much. [Read the rest of this entry...]
Memory Drops—as its name implies—is something designed for guiding the users to find items easily. It works more or less in the same way as the navigation systems, but using the sound rather than images. What you have to do is to stick the small drops onto your items, and press the button on the keychain-shaped device to make your belongings sound when you’re looking for them. [Read the rest of this entry...]
GPS could provide good navigation while driving. But, it is a little boring to follow the digital map and sound. This virtual cable gonna be a better way for navigating.
It uses laser to project red virtual cable which could blend immediately to indicate the right direction. You gotta like this. [Read the rest of this entry...]
This pen is a bridge between traditional map and GPS. Just point the pen on a standard map, all the information will be displayed on the GPS-equipped electronic unit.
This concept design is a awesome thing. It could carry your identification information, pay charges, and directions to your other people in the same area with you. [Read the rest of this entry...]
This is a concept design from German. Unlike standard hearing aid, this device could provide extra functions, such as telephone, recording, music, road guide and so on, by using operating unit. [Read the rest of this entry...]
A team of researchers from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in Greece have created a system that can convert video into tactile 3D map which could be a navigator of blind people. By touching the 3D space with special finger or wand, the visually impaired people could achieve the real condition of her/his destination. The system can also tell the street name to them using speech synthesis.
In this way, the blind will “read” the map as easily as the sighted people. [Read the rest of this entry...]
