Not to get over dramatic or anything, but Indoor Wall Avoidance (which we will call IWA until the team comes up with a better name:) is trying to give Daredevil-like powers to those with visual disabilities. To put that in slightly less geeky terms, IWA is developing a way to create wearable sensors that will enable people without sight or with impaired vision to know when they are getting close to an object.
At minute 1:45 in this video you can see Yaakov, a good friend of TOM and himself deaf and blind, stop before walking into a wall and signalling to the team the feedback the device is providing him. Yaakov is particularly excited about the potential of IWA to help members of the Deaf-Blind community both indoors and ultimately outdoors as well!
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This looks amazing, it looks as if the casing was 3d Printed am i correct, if so what printer?
