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Light Saber Can For The Sight Impaired!
The Eye Stick reinvents the traditional cane! It removes the inconveniences caused by a traditional cane for the blind and replaces it with scientifically enhanced saber-like device. Its designed not to be very long and uses rays and ultrasonic sensors to determine distance measurement, and thus help the sight impaired to navigate their surroundings safely.
“Eye Stick reinvents the traditional cane. It uses ultrasonic waves to reliably measure distance, unaffected by rain, fog, or other climate problems. Projected light is used to prevent collisions with other pedestrians. The ultrasonic system delivers information about hazards such as barriers and changes in floor level, detecting them in advance. Eye Stick also offers another function. It can obtain information about products, for example, by automatically scanning barcodes through a camera. The information is sent through a Bluetooth connection and converted to voice.”
The Eye Stick is a 2012 red dot award: design concept winner.
Designer: Kim Tae-Jin
15 Comments »
stephen russell says
Mass produce this, nice, test in the VA System &other hospitals like Kaiser Perm
xsml says
Awesome device, it looks very practice..
xsml says
Awesome device, it looks very practice.
Quintin Smits says
I love technology, but if I were to become blind, I’d probably take the long stick (or a dog!) to use while walking outside over this device.
Seems more reliable and people can easily see that you’re blind, they won’t walk through the ‘beam’ of the device, messing up the feedback it gives you…
The other functions of this device seem very practical, though! Someone needs to prototype this and have a blind person test it!
Ivan says
It seems to be great, BUT… if a blind person has to use one ear to listen the audio description with the bluetooth device, that’s not very practical: listening is so important to blind people!
michael says
It’s awesome.when do you think it will be released to the market.i’d love to buy one.
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