Romanian startup .lumen is transforming mobility for the visually impaired with innovative glasses that combine self-driving technology and haptic guidance to replicate the essential functions of a guide dog. Bojan Stojkovski - Interesting Engineering omanian startup .lumen is revolutionizing mobility for the visually impaired with its cutting-edge glasses that integrate self-driving technology to mimic the core functions of a guide...

A new prosthetic hand powered by breathing has been developed for children and teenagers. The BBC News Oxford Researchers at the University of Oxford say the new air-powered hand is "lightweight, low maintenance and easy to use". The device uses breathing to power a small purpose-built Tesla turbine and controls prosthetic finger movements. The findings have been published in the...

In the suburbs of Kikuyu in Kenya’s Kiambu County, 29-year-old Moses Kiuna and his cousin David Gathu are fiddling with wires and electric cables in their workshop, their grandmothers’ former granary. By Sheila Mwalili/ Images: Sheila Mwalili and Anadolu Agency They have been doing this since they were children — dismantling toys, radios and TV sets, despite the spankings their...

What if everything you said was immediately subtitled and shared with deaf people around you? That seems to be the idea behind XRAI Glass, a new software solution being paired with Nreal’s AR glasses. The software allows users to connect the glasses directly to their Android phone and then have conversations around them subtitled directly in their field of view....

BY CHARLOTTE SCHUBERT David Hojah is a former NASA engineer, but his real passion is healthcare. Growing up, he saw his family members taking care of his aunt, who had multiple sclerosis, and his uncle, who had a spinal cord injury. Now, he’s developing tech to help people with disability have more independence. The company he founded, Parrots Inc., makes...

Customised electronic toolkits designed to improve STEM accessibility for those with intellectual disabilities have been developed by Monash University researchers. TronicBoards, created by researchers from the Faculty of Information Technology (IT), are a range of customised colour-coded printed circuit boards with large controls and recognisable symbols adapted to facilitate easy circuit-making for diverse intellectual abilities. Lead researcher PhD candidate Hashini...