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Smartphone For The Disabled

The phone actually works by tracking the user’s head movements.

 

Seems unreal, but an Israeli startup company has developed the first ever hands-free smartphone.

The company claims that the smartphone can allow disabled users to control the device with simple head movements.

We must say that the Sesame is a unique smartphone which runs on Android 5.0 Lollipop and designed by the disabled for the disabled.

This phone is best suited for people with spinal cord injuries, Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), cerebral palsy and other disabilities that hamper the use of hands and arms.

The company claims that the smartphone is equipped with proprietary head-tracking technology which also comes with an advanced computer vision algorithm.

The phone’s front facing camera actually tracks the user’s head movements allowing them to control a cursor on screen. The cursor is what the company calls as a virtual finger which makes it possible for users to do what others can do with a regular smartphone.

It is also worth to mention that Giora Livne, the developer himself is a disabled person and is now planning to give away about 30 smartphones to people like him.

This really seems to have turned the whole mobile market upside down which such an invention which even big players haven’t yet created till today.

The phone which is priced at about $1000 recently won a “Verizon Powerful Answers’ Award” with $1 million in prize.

This smartphone by Livne will now enable many disabled people to actually use the mobile phones and get in touch with their friends and family.


TAGS: Sesame Enable

 
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