Tag: Inclusion

A robot helps children with limited visibility join in conversations. An app enables users with low vision to navigate city streets. And now a startup in Romania has developed a mobility headset for blind people that works without an internet connection or maps. Integrated camera sensors continually scan a radius of up to four metres. An AI analyses 90...

Thanks to a dating app, single parents can find both the right partner and the right babysitter. Young parents in the US, however, can get help during their studies through a charitable organisation. Its scholarship programme provides not only emotional support, tutoring and a schooling allowance, but also helps scholars’ children prepare for nursery. With a commitment to establishing...

A Japanese startup is helping people see more clearly. But for people with limited hearing, following conversations can be a challenge. A battery-free hearing aid would be helpful. Now, a Boston-based startup is working on an alternative, creating glasses that use augmented reality to bring more clarity to conversations. Two microphones integrated into the frames continuously record what the...

People with weakened leg muscles can still walk. And now a Swedish startup is turning its attention to people who have reduced capacity to grip. The team’s robot glove is worn over the thumb and middle- and ring fingers. It uses integrated pressure sensors to calculate any additional support required when gripping an object. Mini electric motors then activate artificial...

Call of nature? Say it with flowers. For people with limited mobility, however, toilet trips can be challenging, even in built-up areas. And it’s trickier still at festivals, concerts or during times of crisis or natural disaster. Which is why a California-based startup is converting vans into mobile toilets which organisations can hire - with caregivers included. Accessed by...

Thanks to an app, people with Parkinson’s can navigate the internet more easily. But for some older people, smartphones, tablets and video calls remain a closed book. Enter a Munich-based startup and its simple solution. It consists of a stand, where a tablet is docked and, a board with a control button and small tray for smart cards. Each...

A dating app is bringing people with disabilities together. Now, an Ottawa-based startup is ensuring people with physical disabilities get the help they need by connecting them with caregivers on a new digital platform. It might be personal hygiene, cleaning and cooking. But equally shopping, collecting the post and providing speedy assistance when clients’ potentially height-adjustable, electric wheelchairs break...

A community is helping stateless people overcome personal and professional challenges. In modern-day Canada only around 1% of Indigenous peoples work in the technical sector. Now, a not-for-profit organisation in Vancouver is aiming to change that, harnessing the culture and knowledge of British Columbia’s 204 First Nations to create new technological solutions. Enhancing access to the economy and politics...