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AiSee wearable tells blind users what they're holding in their hand
There are many situations in which blind people don't necessarily have to see what they're holding, they just need it described to them. An experimental new wearable device, known as AiSee, is designed to do that very thing.
Developed over the past five years by a team of scientists at the National University of Singapore, AiSee looks like a regular set of bone-conduction earphones joined together by a band that goes around the back of the wearer's neck. That image is processed in real time via cloud-based AI algorithms, which analyze data such as the shape, size and color of the item, along with any text printed on its labels. "At present, visually impaired people in Singapore do not have access to assistive AI technology of this level of sophistication," said the lead scientist, Assoc.
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