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Check out this app that translates speech to sign language in real time.
This wearable glove translates sign language into speech.
There’s an app for that.
This is now possible thanks to AI.
Check out this blind man using echolocation technology to ride a bike.
People with vision issues can also use apps where real people or an AI can see on their behalf and guide them.
Check out this crowdfunding campaign for a blind assistance helmet.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/blindhelmet/blind-assistance-helmet
I came across this sonar wrist band device!
https://www.palmervision.com/product/sunu-band/
This smart walking cane uses sonar feedback to help blind people navigate their surroundings.
Check out this teen who created a assistive device for visually impaired people that uses GPS and ultrasonic technologies.
https://www.good.is/articles/eighteen-year-old-kid-helps-the-blind-in-a-big-way
Good service to hire wheelchair in UK
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The Red Cross also hire mobility scooters and such.
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They suck at baby-changing areas too. Clean up once in a while guys.
Even public loos beat some of these high-street chains when it comes to caring for their customers – thing is, most of Costa, Nero and Starbucks customers are old and need the basics getting right.
Costa must be lobbying for crappy lavs.
I guess Costa has seen a rise in sales since the UK started closing down public toilets. Go figure!
Been wanting these in LA for nearly a decade now. Not going to happen. Cyclists don’t pay road tax. so don’t hold your breath.
Hello America?
And out on the street – San Fransico needs these!
Come on tech industry these kids are beating you to the future.
There’s this thing that lets you hover over text so you feel it, but one that hovers over text on a book or news paper would be even better.
This identifies objects rather than helps with navigation but it seems like a great help to people with difficulties in seeing things.
Try Blindsquare, it helps when using public transport.
wow
Not being lazy but these would be handy for anyone who can’t be arsed. Throw in a pair of auto trousers and take my money now.
It will get less weird when robots start just getting in the way, This cumbersome dood is already a pain in the butt when it gets bus.
TEMI could do those tasks I guess. WIll be interesting to see which groups of people use robots most over the next 20 years.
in the uk there is this app https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=uk.org.blind.TalkingNews
Do these guys have an app?
Currently, loads of kind volunteers read and record the local news for blind people. Very commendable – but this app pulls lots of them together.
You can get these, but a bendy board seems a better idea.
Yeah, shameful 1600 dollars here for the same piece of bent wood.
SCAM ALERT – Unreal, trying to charge disabled people 1000 bucks for a bent plank.
You can get these, though its not really a frame. Good idea
Loving the Rocket for getting home pissed.
or just go rocket!!!!
Or just go full Herbie!
Cool