Jake Lacourse of Middleborough, Massachusetts, was honored at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas for creating a game he calls BecDot. It’s designed to help his 2-year-old daughter, Rebecca, learn pre-braille concepts.
CES 2018
ThirdEye’s X1 Smart Glasses Never Forgets a Face
ThirdEye’s X1 Smart Glasses uses augmented reality to perform any number of tasks, including recognizing individual people by their faces, which can potentially be helpful for those who are blind or visually impaired.
RightEye’s EyeQ System Uses Eye-Tracking to Diagnose Health Issues
There’s more to your eyesight than just whether or not you can see. Often, your vision can be a window to other health issues, like autism, Parkinson’s and even whether you have a concussion. That’s the idea behind RightEye’s EyeQ system, which aims to revolutionize the optometrist office with eye-tracking tech to not only diagnose issues, but to offer therapeutic measures to correct them as well. At CES 2018, the company released a brand new all-in-one EyeQ terminal that incorporates a PC, a monitor as well as a Tobii eye-tracking camera that promises to do all of that and more.
CTA Foundation Announces Winners of CES 2018 Accessibility Contest
The Consumer Technology Association (CTA) Foundation announced the winners of the annual Eureka Park Accessibility Contest at CES® 2018: Blind Touch, Lili Smart, SignAll, SofiHub and Unaliwear. The CTA Foundation, a national foundation with the mission to link seniors and people with disabilities with technologies to enhance their lives, is providing each winner with a booth in Eureka Park – the home of startups during CES – and a $2,500 cash prize. CES 2018, the world’s gathering place for all who thrive on the business of consumer technologies, will run January 9-12, 2018, in Las Vegas, Nevada.
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