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New submitter albinobee writes "The Kinect for Xbox 360 isn't only about gaming; it can also be used to help compensate for impaired vision, as a team of Indian engineers is working to prove. A device called viSparsh, still in its nascent stage, is a motion sensing belt that can help alert the blind to obstacles that lie in their path."http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png (http://twitter.com/home?status=Indian+Engineers+Modify+Kinect+To+Help +the+Blind+Walk+With+Confidence%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbi t.ly%2FAapL7u)http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png (http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fhardware.slashdot.org%2F story%2F12%2F02%2F06%2F2158229%2Findian-engineers-modify-kinect-to-help-the-blind-walk-with-confidence%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3D facebook)http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png (http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/12/02/06/2158229/indian-engineers-modify-kinect-to-help-the-blind-walk-with-confidence?utm_source=slashdot&utm_medium=googleplus)

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jb143
02-07-2012, 12:14 AM
Heh...I "invented" pretty much the same thing way back in my high school speech class when we had to come up with some idea and give a presentation on it.

renderr
02-09-2012, 02:22 PM
craziness.. who would of though