Indian Engineers Modify Kinect To Help the Blind Walk With Confidence 59
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."
Seems rediculous but... (Score:5, Interesting)
The more I hear about Kinect the more it makes it seem like one of the more revolutionary products that Microsoft has ever come out with...
Re:Seems rediculous but... (Score:5, Interesting)
Re:Seems rediculous but... (Score:2, Interesting)
What has really made it so revolutionary is Microsoft's open nature about it.
Lol, Except for the bit where they stated they were never going to release a driver, that using it with a PC voided the warranty, and that use for any other purpose was illegal, and threatened anyone who started making a driver.
Fortunately, one of the guys they hired to develop(johnny lee) offered 3k of his own money through a front for the first person to release open drivers for it.