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Sunday, August 21, 2011

Cane 2.0: The Tacit Is Hand-Mounted Sonar For The Vision Impaired

Project Tacit: Sonar For The Blind from Grathio Labs on Vimeo.



Every once in a while you see an invention that seems a long time coming. The Tacit, a hand-mounted system that pings surroundings and transmits distance information to the user, is one of those. While the reliable white cane and occasional accommodations for the blind and vision impaired ameliorate the difficulty of navigating the world sans sight, technological advances that are both useful and ready for deployment are few and far between.

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