Live Braille: The next revolution in blind's 'Sight'
Example: Walk us through a specific example(s) of how this solution makes a difference; include its primary activities.
Impact: What is the impact of the work to date? Also describe the projected future impact for the coming years.
Spread Strategies: Moving forward, what are the main strategies for scaling impact?
Financial Sustainability Plan: What is this solution’s plan to ensure financial sustainability?
Marketplace: Who else is addressing the problem outlined here? How does the proposed project differ from these approaches?
Founding Story
Team
Ein Labs
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NGOs, Businesses, Regional government.
Health and Hygiene.
Live Braille directly addresses 38 million completely blind and 110 million with severely impaired vision on the planet according to WHO statistics who still use the trivial tools such as white cane for navigation. Blindness is still increasing by one to two million cases a year and yet there has been less done in this sector!
Live Braille comes as a ray of hope by creating a new platform for the visually impaired by providing assistive navigation technology that is economical, ergonomic and reliable.
We are targeting a huge audience and most importantly a global social issue. There are millions of blind who can not afford imported and expensive technology. We want to reach the grass root level and eradicate the helplessness and plight the issue of blindness causes; GLOBALLY.
Unfortunately the above statements seem to be quite contradicting without funds in hand and a public know how of technology. We firstly are currently engaged in expensive research to cut costs to bring the price of the unit down to $99 and establish indigenous manufacturing plants to cut on logistics. We need funds to manufacture and ship free samples to communities globally. We also need to spread the word in a community which has less access to social networks.
Live Braille has been our first global entrepreneurial initiative so far. But we definitely have a concrete technology to build upon. Live Braille has been awarded with various awards in the US, Hong Kong and India. It has been identified as the second best innovation for the blind all over Asia pacific in Hong Kong by iMechE UK.
Live Braille has been featured on TED and awarded the TiEGER award by TiE group.
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