A Shape-Shifting Navigation Device for Both the Sighted and Visually Impaired
From: Wireless Design - 08/27/2015

Guiding sighted and visually-impaired individuals hrough the darkness were
handheld, shape-shifting cubes that Adam Spiers, a postdoctoral associate in
the Yale robotics lab, designed and created with 3-D printing technology. The
user's position in the environment determines the shape of the wireless
device. The top half of the cube twists to direct users toward their next
destination and extends forward to indicate the distance to reach it. Rather
than look at the device, as with a smartphone, users know where to go by
feeling the changing shapes.

Read the entire article and viewa video (0:29) at:
http://www.wirelessdesignmag.com/news/2015/08/shape-shifting-navigation-device-both-sighted-and-visually-impaired