Ultrasound echolocation
Two days ago, two engineering students in the UK talked to The Engineer about their echolocation device, a glove with a proximity attachment that sends vibrations to a visually impaired user. Sound familiar? :)
Yeah, so it's basically a Bottlenose glove that lacks the implanted magnetic interface, is aimed towards visually impaired people, and probably costs 100x as much.
The difference is obviously the Bottlenose ideas are usually based around infrared and this glove uses ultrasonic waves instead. Also, the vibrations are created through the use of small vibrating motors similar to the ones used in phones or those little toothbrush robots instead of a EMF and a magnet. There's also a short demonstration at the bottom of the Dailymail article for the "Ultracane", a similar concept put into a cane device instead of a glove.
All in all, it's a pretty sweet (and uninvasive) way to replace a failing sense with a new one.
http://www.theengineer.co.uk/news/vibrating-glove-uses-ultrasonic-echolocation-to-help-the-blind/1019874.article#ixzz3RXs7q3Gq
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2951187/Soon-HANDS-Vibrating-glove-uses-ultrasound-help-blind-navigate-surroundings.html
Yeah, so it's basically a Bottlenose glove that lacks the implanted magnetic interface, is aimed towards visually impaired people, and probably costs 100x as much.
The difference is obviously the Bottlenose ideas are usually based around infrared and this glove uses ultrasonic waves instead. Also, the vibrations are created through the use of small vibrating motors similar to the ones used in phones or those little toothbrush robots instead of a EMF and a magnet. There's also a short demonstration at the bottom of the Dailymail article for the "Ultracane", a similar concept put into a cane device instead of a glove.
All in all, it's a pretty sweet (and uninvasive) way to replace a failing sense with a new one.
http://www.theengineer.co.uk/news/vibrating-glove-uses-ultrasonic-echolocation-to-help-the-blind/1019874.article#ixzz3RXs7q3Gq
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2951187/Soon-HANDS-Vibrating-glove-uses-ultrasound-help-blind-navigate-surroundings.html
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