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Present by : ZENITH Team members: Jerry HuangKelvin TunSumathy Rajeshkumar Victor Lin
Chakra (The Magic Eye)
The device linking the real world & digital world
• If any business needs a dose of creativity, its health care.
Source: Harvard Business School
• Vision Enhancement and Assistive Technology can help perform most daily tasks
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Did you know...?
Source: visionaid.org
________________people in the world are blind
________________ have significant Low Vision conditions
________________visually impaired children age 0-14 years
Over 40 million
Over 120 million
Over 1.4 million
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The Idea in Brief
Experiment
Market Research
Build
Test
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Xreader Talking Compass $ 71 ATC Copy Machine $950
PVC material with braille Dots on the cards. $2
Braille watch Price: $14
Acrobat LCD Price:$2,903
EYE-Q Digital Magnifier Price:$408
Aumax CCTV 19" LCD Price:$2,900
Seika Braille Display Price:$ 2052
Miniprint 425 TDD: Telecommunications device for the deaf and mute people
Widely used available devices—visual / mute aid
Vibrant Alarm Clock
Wireless Flash Door bell
Wireless Flash Electronic water jug
Behind-the-ear aid
Siemens Hearing Aid Device
Widely used available devices—hearing aid
Ongoing developments..Device Enables Blind People To
“See” With Their Tongue
MIT Testing Portable Machine to Help the Blind to See
A GPS Device For The Blind
In near future..
may be
Latest device…accessible satellite navigation solutions
• A GPS receiver connected to cell phone by Bluetooth
• A screen reader software identify and interpret what is being displayed and sent to standard output
• This interpretation is re-presented to the user with text-to-speech, sound icons, or a Braille output device.
• Cannot alert the blind to small obstacles like stairs or street curbs
Cannot give up on canes and guide dog companions yet
What do they really need?
According to our interview results in China..
Convenient70%
Multi-function
60%
Affordable90%
• Base on the New technology from MIT Media Lab-----“SixSense”
- a wearable gestural interface that augments the physical world around us
with digital information and lets us use natural hand gestures to interact with
that information.
PHONE
SixthSense
• Camera track and understand the gesture, objects and surroundings
• The system recognize all the images and color• Easy output which is easy to use • Merge computing with physical world
How it works?
How a TTY Modem works ?
Converts digital electronic data to analogue audio signals
Converts audio signals back to digital data
How it works ?
PORJECTOR
REMOTE DATA SERVER
CAMERA/MICROPHONE
SPEAKER
FILTER
RECOGNIZER
Capture the voice and sign from real world
(theater, casual talk….)
Use any interface to communicate along
with synthicized speaker
Get order and process data, powerful
internet and personalized database
• A voice synthesizer tap to GPS to provide verbal directions. SixthSense technology and database give immediate real life feedback about the users' surroundings.
• Increase their pedestrian mobility and to get around
• Better navigation experience
• Makes blind and mute people more independent
How it works ?
Prototype
Camera
Vol +/-
Microphone
Earphone
Mobile connector
Neck band hook
GPS / Battery
Projector
Mirror
Chakra Design Prototype Test
Foxconn/ FlextronicsSales AgentEnd User
Business Model—Commercialization
R&D sampling
Sourcing OEM Vendor
DeliveringMarketing
Feedback
• Ameriphone, Inc.• Blazie Engineering• Krown Manufacturing, Inc• Institute for Disabilities Research and Training I
nc. - My TTY
• Microflip, Inc.• NXi Communications, Inc.• Phone-TTY, Inc. • Ultratec, Inc.
Business Model—Government Subsidize
R&D sampling
Promotion
& Lobby
SourcingDelivering
Feedback
Chakra Design Prototype Test
Government Subsidize
Out sourcing Mass
Production
Government Agencies
- Social Welfare projects- Charity Fund- Fire fighters
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