Technology For the Disabled

Technology For The Disabled

Provides an enriched environment

Promote their social and cognitive participation and growth

Helpful to mankind

Why Technology?

Here are few technologies:

Liftware DotUNITalkittBe My EyesFinger ReaderSesame PhoneAXS Map

Liftware Technology

Liftware Technology cancels hand tremor to bring the joy back to mealtime.

Liftware is designed to help people with hand tremor eat more easily.

Tremor – an involuntary shaking of the body or limbs, as from disease, fear, or weakness.

Engineered to simply your lifestyle

Inside the smart handle

Different Liftware utensil attachments Soup spoon

Everyday spoon Fork

Stabilizing technologyAdvanced sensors, motors and an

onboard computer work to actively detect and counteract your tremor.

Rechargeable batteryBattery will last for several days on a

charge.

Use Liftware to enjoy anything from soups and cereals, to salads and pastas.

Dot Smartwatch Technology

Vision: With Dot, Disability is not Inability.Dot is a smartwatch created by a South Korean

startup that finally gives the visually impaired a way to access digital information.

It is the world’s first Braille smartwatch and it is more affordable than regular e-Braille

devices.

Dot helps the blind access messages, tweets, even books anywhere and at any time.

It can connect via Bluetooth to any smartphone then retrieve and translate the text (from an email or messaging app) into

Braille for its owner.

It runs around 5 days on an average after one charge.

Four sets of six dots raise and lower at speeds of up to 100 times per second in order to produce four Braille characters at a time.

If that’s too quick, the watch can also slow all the way down to one Braille character per

second.

Problems that Dot proposes to end:-

1% of normal books translated to braille

books.For the past 20 years, braille readers have

cost between $2000 and $15000. Dot reduces this cost drastically by being available at a cost

of $290 USD.95% of blind people give up learning Braille. Due to cost, most of them are unable to access braille readers of braille books. Dot wishes to

reduces this percentage.

UNI Technology

UNI is a two-way communication tool for the deaf using gesture and speech technology.

The world's first easy to use sign adding software, for those that want to customize their sign language dictionaries.

Uni is a tablet and attachment that leverages motion-sensing cameras and voice recognition to translate American Sign Language into spoken words—and spoken words into text—in real time.

Sign language dictionary management and distribution software.

Upload your signs and share them with others. 

When UNI comes out, how many signs/words will it have?

The basic UNI Dictionary at launch will have at least 2,000 signs.

Users will be able to add their own signs to it, so the number of signs available will grow over

time.

Talkitt Technology

Talkitt voice software helps the speech-impaired communicate in any language

Problems faced by speech impaired people :-

Speech impaired people have speech and language disorders which makes them difficult to communicate with other people.

They have unintelligible pronunciation.

How does Talkitt work?Talkitt translates unintelligible pronunciation from any

language into understandable speech.

Once downloaded, Talkitt software will run conveniently on smart phones and tablets.

To get the ball rolling, an individual with a speech disability will record a word and then that person (or a caregiver with the ability to understand them) will link the utterance to a word on the application.

Working

Be My Eyes Technology

Be My Eyes is an app that connects blind people

with volunteer helpers from around the world via live video chat

A Network of Eyes

Be My Eyes is an app that connects blind people with volunteer helpers from around the world via live video chat

Be My Eyes is all about contributing to and benefiting from small acts of

kindness, so hop on board and get involved!

FINGER READER TECHNOLOGYFinger Reader is a wearable tool to help read text.

A user can wear this device on a finger, then point it on a body of text, one line at a time.

How it functions:

It has two functions: To help the visually impaired read printed text on a

book or on an electronic device.To be used as a language translation tool.

The small camera on the Finger Reader will scan the text and give real-time audio feedback of the words it detects.

It also notifies the reader via vibrations when it is at the start of a line, end of a line, moving to a new line or when the user is moving too far away from the text baseline.

Sesame Phone

The Sesame Phone is the world’s first completely touch-free Smartphone, designed by and for people with disabilities.

Form and function Sesame Enable has developed Smartphone software for

people who have little or no use of their hands. Users manipulate the phone’s screen and apps with a combination of voice commands and slight turns of their head.

A combination of voice commands and turns of the head lets a user manipulate the phone’s screen and apps.

A Touch-Free Smartphone the Disabled Can Control With Their Heads

How does it Work?

Features

• Touch-Free Control :- Gesture recognition understands small head movements, eliminating the need for touch

• Integrated Voice Control :- Use your voice to turn on/off the phone or switch between applications.

• Download Apps :- Touch-free interface extends to nearly any app from the Google Play store.

Launched in 2012 as a website and mobile,Web app

Powered by Google Maps

Allows the user to rate several features of local businesses for accessibility, which are tallied

into an overall star rating.

AXS Map Technology

Imagine being in a wheelchair and suddenly having the accessible world at your fingertips via

web or mobile phone.

Provides people with disabilities the freedom to be spontaneous about where they eat, shop, work, and play.

Wendy Levy, Creative Director of the MacArthur Award-winning Bay Area Video Coalition, called AXS Map “game-changing.

A filmmaker with multiple sclerosis hopes an app he developed will help fellow wheelchair users make cities like New York more accessible.

“The work I do, this app and the film, is about changing the face of disability. The civil rights movement, […], the feminist movement all gained traction. But for some reason, the disability movement

kind of slowed down,”

- DaSilva.