TACIT: A HAPTIC WRISTRANGEFINDER
This ultrasonic “bat glove” lets you feel things at a distance.
Gregory Hayes
Tacit is a wearable system that translates the distance to anything you aim your hand toward into pressure on your wrist. The closer the object, the greater the pressure. Sweep your hand around, and the device conveys to you a tactile image of your surroundings. I designed Tacit to help vision-impaired people navigate their environments, but it’s also a fun and effective sensory enhancement for fully sighted people — especially in the dark.
Steve Hoefer (grathio.com) is a technological problem solver in San Francisco. ...
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