AWARD YEAR
2021
CATEGORY
Play & Learning
GOALS
Good Health & Well-being, Reduced Inequality
KEYWORDS
Visually Impaired, smart ring, Wearable tech
COUNTRY
United Arab Emirates
DESIGNED BY
Nada Aldash & Maryam Moustafa
WEBSITE
https://www.jamesdysonaward.org/2020/project/touch/
Touch
Smart ring helping visually impaired identify colours and read
Touch is a smart ring designed to assist the visually impaired identify color and read small texts by simply touching an item. It can be used in everyday tasks such as shopping for clothes or groceries, allowing for a greater sense of independence.
Touch has three modes; standby mode, color mode, and reading mode. The ring produces haptic, audio, and visual feedback. So when interacting with the ring, it vibrates, lights up, and communicates with the user audibly using any blue tooth earphones.
The idea was to create a functional accessory that acts as a complement to an outfit. Something that users constantly wear in order to independently pick out their own clothes. By allowing the ring to identify the colour of a piece of clothing, it enables a blind person to grow a conceptual idea of colour. The ring also lights up according to the colour it scans.