Saturday, June 29, 2013

Creators of the Kinecthesia Haptic Belt for Blind People

If you have one-sided neglect this belt could inform you of what is on your neglected side. Much more easily than having to swivel your head all the time.
 http://www.medgadget.com/2012/05/medgadget-interviews-eric-berdinis-and-jeff-kiske-creators-of-the-kinecthesia-haptic-belt-for-blind-people.html
the Kinecthesia, a haptic belt which allows the wearer to virtually sense objects ahead, and to the left and right thanks to three motors which vibrate in response to objects in their immediate vicinity. As the name would imply, at the heart of the Kinecthesia is an XBox Kinect 3D camera which is connected to a Beagle Board computing platform that processes the depth data from the device and drives the motors.

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