Hands-free smartphone a hit for people with disabilities
From: JWeekly - 04/30/2015
By: Raffi Wineberg

Sesame Enable is an Israeli company building what is believed to be the first
completely hands-free smartphone. The Sesame Phone is designed for people
with spinal cord injuries, ALS, cerebral palsy, or other disabilities that
hamper the use of hands and arms - a population that has been on the outside
looking in at the smartphone revolution.

Three years in the works, the Sesame is a Google Nexus 5 Android smartphone
that comes equipped with proprietary head-tracking technology. An advanced
computer vision algorithm and the phone’s front-facing camera track head
movements and allow users to control a cursor on screen. The cursor is
essentially a virtual finger, letting users do what others can with a regular
smartphone.

Read the entire article at:
http://www.jweekly.com/article/full/74580/business-professional-real-estate-hands-free-smartphone-opens-worlds-for-pe

Links:
Sesame Enable (with video 1:39)
http://sesame-enable.com

This Clever Smartphone for the Paralyzed Could Have Mass Appeal
http://www.forbes.com/sites/parmyolson/2015/02/11/sesame-smartphone-disabled-head-tracking

Talkitt
http://www.talkitt.com

Talkitt App Clears Garbled Speech of People with Disabilities (with video
  5:04) 
http://www.medgadget.com/2014/08/talkitt-app-clears-garbled-speech-of-people-with-disabilities.html