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Indian Engineers Modify Kinect To Help the Blind Walk With Confidence

Posted by Soulskill on Monday February 6, 2012 @10:59AM 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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Re:Indian engineers by Anonymous Coward · 2012-02-06 11:14 · Score: 1, Insightful

I personally think it's bullshit to even mention the nationality of the engineers in the headline and the article summary.
Re:Indian? by multiben · 2012-02-06 13:00 · Score: 4, Insightful

That's a pretty long distance grab for the rascist card there. Is it really not interesting to you to know where people come from? We do not all belong to one homogenous mass of humans. We come from different cultures and different countries with different priorities and backgrounds. I think it is interesting to know what research is being done in different parts of the globe - especially when it is such a positive story as this.