In our world of electronic
communication, handicapped people are often the outcast of this revolution.
Even if new rules are beginning to be implemented at a local and
international scale, communication devices are still designed for valid
people.
Zhou Leï particularly focused on the case of China, and its logically
important blind population, and imagines solutions to this
problem.
 BAMO
is an electronic stick associated with a bluetooth earphone: it looks like a
relay baton held in the hand and attached to the wrist to avoid losing
it.
Real concentrate of technologies, BAMO integrates the functions of a
radar, a GPS, an optical reader and a telephone. With Bamo’s help, a blind
person can situate himself exactly, detect obstacles, read written information
and communicate.
The Bluetooth earphone can translate orally all the
information
transmitted.
TUBSO is device
of mobile telephony for deaf and hard-of-hearing people in the shape of an
unfolding tube. It has three main functions: it receives simple text messages,
sends text messages thanks to the dialling keypad, enables written conversations
with a video thanks to the webcam.
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