The white cane is still one of the most common tools that blind and visually impaired people use to stay mobile. But think instead how valuable an electronic device would be if it could communicate on the surrounding environment to its user.
Catalin gradually lost his sight during childhood. Nowadays he teaches in a school for visually impaired people and he’s among the volunteers at the Politehnica University of Bucharest testing a new kind of navigation system for blind people. His experience will help researchers customize the device for users.