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]]>“In these days, we are talking about flying cars, but these people have been using just a plain stick,” Ceylan told CNN. “As a blind person, when I am at the Metro station, I don’t know which is my exit… I don’t know which bus is approaching… which stores are around me. That kind of information can be provided with the WeWalk.”
It’s equipped with built-in speakers, a voice assistant, Google, and sensors that send vibrations to warn about obstacles above chest level.
You can check out the remarkable invention on an Instagram page called wewalkio.
Scroll down and take a look at the images below.
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]]>The post Blind Man Invents a Stick That Uses Google Maps to Help Blind People Navigate appeared first on PlayJunkie.
]]>“In these days, we are talking about flying cars, but these people have been using just a plain stick,” Ceylan told CNN. “As a blind person, when I am at the Metro station, I don’t know which is my exit… I don’t know which bus is approaching… which stores are around me. That kind of information can be provided with the WeWalk.”
It’s equipped with built-in speakers, a voice assistant, Google, and sensors that send vibrations to warn about obstacles above chest level.
You can check out the remarkable invention on an Instagram page called wewalkio.
Scroll down and take a look at the images below.
The post Blind Man Invents a Stick That Uses Google Maps to Help Blind People Navigate appeared first on PlayJunkie.
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