Present by : ZENITH Team members: Jerry HuangKelvin TunSumathy Rajeshkumar Victor Lin

Chakra (The Magic Eye)

The device linking the real world & digital world

• If any business needs a dose of creativity, its health care.

Source: Harvard Business School

• Vision Enhancement and Assistive Technology can help perform most daily tasks

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Did you know...?

Source: visionaid.org

________________people in the world  are blind

________________ have significant Low Vision conditions

________________visually impaired children age 0-14 years

Over 40 million

Over 120 million

Over 1.4 million

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The Idea in Brief

Experiment

Market Research

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Xreader Talking Compass $ 71 ATC Copy Machine $950 PVC material with braille Dots on the cards. $2

Braille watch Price: $14

Acrobat LCD Price:$2,903

EYE-Q Digital Magnifier Price:$408

Aumax CCTV 19" LCD Price:$2,900

Seika Braille Display Price:$ 2052

Miniprint 425 TDD: Telecommunications device for the deaf and mute people

Widely used available devices—visual / mute aid

Vibrant Alarm Clock

Wireless Flash Door bell

Wireless Flash Electronic water jug

Behind-the-ear aid

Siemens Hearing Aid Device

Widely used available devices—hearing aid

Ongoing developments..Device Enables Blind People To

“See” With Their Tongue

MIT Testing Portable Machine to Help the Blind to See

A GPS Device For The Blind

In near future..

may be

Latest device…accessible satellite navigation solutions

• A GPS receiver connected to cell phone by Bluetooth

• A screen reader software identify and interpret what is being displayed and sent to standard output

• This interpretation is re-presented to the user with text-to-speech, sound icons, or a Braille output device.

• Cannot alert the blind to small obstacles like stairs or street curbs

Cannot give up on canes and guide dog companions yet

What do they really need?

According to our interview results in China..

Convenient70%

Multi-function

60%

Affordable90%

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUdDhWfpqxg

• Base on the New technology from MIT Media Lab-----“SixSense”

- a wearable gestural interface that augments the physical world around us

with digital information and lets us use natural hand gestures to interact with

that information.

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SixthSense

• Camera track and understand the gesture, objects and surroundings

• The system recognize all the images and color• Easy output which is easy to use • Merge computing with physical world

How it works?

How a TTY Modem works ?

Converts digital electronic data to analogue audio signals

Converts audio signals back to digital data

How it works ?

PORJECTOR

REMOTE DATA SERVER

CAMERA/MICROPHONE

SPEAKER

FILTER

RECOGNIZER

Capture the voice and sign from real world

(theater, casual talk….)

Use any interface to communicate along

with synthicized speaker

Get order and process data, powerful

internet and personalized database

• A voice synthesizer tap to GPS to provide verbal directions. SixthSense technology and database give immediate real life feedback about the users' surroundings.

• Increase their pedestrian mobility and to get around

• Better navigation experience

• Makes blind and mute people more independent

How it works ?

Prototype

Camera

Vol +/-

Microphone

Earphone

Mobile connector

Neck band hook

GPS / Battery

Projector

Mirror

Chakra Design Prototype Test

Foxconn/ FlextronicsSales AgentEnd User

Business Model—Commercialization

R&D sampling

Sourcing OEM Vendor

DeliveringMarketing

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• Ameriphone, Inc.• Blazie Engineering• Krown Manufacturing, Inc• Institute for Disabilities Research and Training I

nc. - My TTY

• Microflip, Inc.• NXi Communications, Inc.• Phone-TTY, Inc. • Ultratec, Inc.

Business Model—Government Subsidize

R&D sampling

Promotion& Lobby

SourcingDelivering

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Chakra Design Prototype Test

Government Subsidize

Out sourcing Mass

Production

Government Agencies

- Social Welfare projects- Charity Fund- Fire fighters

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