Nigerian creates smart cane for visually impaired people

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A young Nigerian has developed a smart cane using locally sourced materials. The smart cane allows visually impaired people to move around their environment easily and also to travel far distances without assistance.

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00:00I really love it and I know that it will really help us with the blind.

00:11It's very good.

00:12I love the sound, the way it talks, I love everything about the creation.

00:22One of the interesting parts about my innovation is that I can source some of the materials

00:26locally.

00:28Aside from the challenges of having funding and the like, so one of the locally sourced

00:32materials are the ice cream case up or use the takeaway case up, the super glue can get

00:38them around, the glue gun, the button switch, you can locally source all of them around

00:42so that makes it more interesting.

00:44What led to my innovation is that I have a visually impaired cousin sister, so she can,

00:52she's limited to do some stuff, so like sending a message, go get something, so she's very

00:58limited and this brought about the innovation in general.

01:01So with the SmartSkin she can adapt to a new environment, travel far distance independently

01:06with little or no assistance.

01:08What I think about the SmartSkin is that it will help us to navigate where we are going.

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