Smart cane may help visually impaired navigate more terrain
From: PBS News Hour - 08/26/2015
By: April Brown

A high-tech upgrade to the traditional white cane may help blind and visually
impaired people be more confident about navigating the world independently.

View the video (5:58) at:
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/smart-cane-may-help-visually-impaired-navigate-terrain/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZL5Y4fIw1QU

Networked Walking Stick
From: Handisco

Through a new generation of innovative and connected devices, Handisco wants
to significantly improve the autonomy, accessibility, and security of
vulnerable people in our cities.

First product developed by Handisco, this intelligent white stick equipped
with obstacles detectors and connected in real time to its environment has
for ambition to improve considerably the life of visual impaired people.

Handisco website
http://handisco.com/en

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Teenager invents walking cane gadget that helps blind people stroll safely
http://www.damngeeky.com/2015/04/28/31042/teenager-invents-walking-cane-gadget-that-helps-blind-people-stroll-safely.html

High school student from Canada invents revolutionary iAid gadget for blind
  people
http://www.independent.co.uk/student/news/high-school-student-from-canada-invents-revolutionary-iaid-gadget-for-blind-people-10380722.html

How one teen invented a wearable devicxe to help the newly blind
http://www.notimpossiblenow.com/lives/how-one-teen-invented-a-wearable-device-to-help-the-newly-blind