People with mobility impairments might need assistance with typing, scrolling, or gaming. These disabilities can affect someone’s ability to work or connect with others socially.
Wearable
This braille glove reads out loud for you
It can be difficult for some blind people to learn to read braille. That’s where the BrailleWear glove comes in, as it verbally tells them. The glove is being developed by assistive tech startup ORama AI.
How to use Apple Watch Mirror on your iPhone
Apple Watch screen mirroring allows you to view your Apple Watch’s screen and control your Apple Watch via your iPhone.
U.S. company implants brain chips for 50 people to cure blindness, deafness and more…
A US firm has implanted 50 chips into people’s brains, with scientists at the company hopeful that they will one day be able to massively improve the lives of people with blindness, deafness, depression and physical paralysis.
These GPT-4 powered smart glasses help you have conversations
Students at Stanford University have developed smart glasses that provide users with appropriate responses for conversations through an optics lens connected to a smartphone running OpenAI’s GPT-4 large language model.
Fitness app updates with new accessibility features
Gentler Streak has become one of the most popular fitness apps for iPhone and Apple Watch. And to ensure that everyone can use the app to track their health, Gentler Streak has now been updated to fully support iOS accessibility features.
A group of students is using artificial intelligence to help blind and partially sighted people navigate
Rudransh Goyal, Vinayak Maheshwari, and Mustafa Zahid make up Team Guiding Eyes, which was recently named one of the five finalists of the Samsung Solve for Tomorrow contest. The contest asks Canadians between the ages of 16 and 25 to solve problems in their communities using STEM skills.
Apple AR/VR headsets rumoured to assist people with vision loss
According to information released by Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman in his most recent issue of the PowerOn newsletter, future iterations of the AR/VR gear that Apple is working on could aid those with vision loss.
This wearable navigation system assists visually impaired individuals with walking
In Japan, the number of people with visual impairment including low vision was estimated to be 1.64 million as of 2007, and the number is forecast to increase to nearly 2 million by 2030.
Smart’ walking stick helps guide visually impaired grocery shoppers
A team of engineers at the University of Colorado Boulder are using artificial intelligence (AI) to develop a ‘smart’ walking stick for the blind or visually impaired.
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