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Indian Engineers Modify Kinect To Help the Blind Walk With Confidence

Posted by Soulskill on from the paging-geordi-laforge dept.

New submitter albinobee writes "The Kinect for Xbox 360 isn't only about gaming; it can also be used to help compensate for impaired vision, as a team of Indian engineers is working to prove. A device called viSparsh, still in its nascent stage, is a motion sensing belt that can help alert the blind to obstacles that lie in their path."

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  1. When it crashes, so do they ;-) by Zero__Kelvin · · Score: 3, Funny

    Microsoft has finally embraced and extended the term crash!

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    Guns don't kill people; Physics kills people! - John Lithgow as Dick Solomon on Third Rock From The Sun
  2. Engineers? by Frankie70 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Why is this post about engineers, when they are just people?