New Innovations and Assistive devices for persons with disabilities in India
Outdoor mobility device - Swostik Sourav Dash, Co-founder of NeoMotion, has developed a solution to enable wheelchairs to travel long distances, including narrow alleys and even forest areas.
Assistive cars Anand Kutre, a 41-year-old entrepreneur from Bengaluru, is on a mission to make cars accessible for persons with disabilities. He has designed and built a mechanism that can be easily installed under a car’s driving seat, making it disabled-friendly. Turn Plus seats are designed to make car travel easy for a disabled person, using an easily installable swivel seat mechanism.
Mobile app for the deaf Quadio Devices Pvt Ltd, a hearing care provider of India, launched a hearing app that replicates as a mobile-based hearing solution complete with all the features of a conventional hearing tool. The Q+ app, a free application, is accessible, controllable, and customisable. The Q+ app harnesses the processing power of a smartphone to enable it to be used as a complete and fully-functional hearing machine. It is designed to maximise the listening experience based on the results of a simple interactive hearing test. The app also gives the user an ability to control and customise sound quality by intelligently enhancing hearing sounds and speech.
Encyclopaedia for the hearing impaired Mumbai-based Bleetech has devised a low-cost version of an encyclopaedia for persons who are hearing impaired.
Accessible videos Recognising the dire need for assistance in video translations, Chabla Oy, have developed a mobile app service that instantly connects the user to a live interpreter. Further, it also enables deaf people to make and receive calls. Moreover, the app provides free call service between Chabla users.
Real-time text to braille converter Students from Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology, Thiruvananthapuram, have devised a letter-to-letter braille converter that prints the recognised letter in the braille cell.
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