Manovue

285 million people are estimated to be visually impaired worldwide: 39 million are blind and 246 have low vision. Somewhere in the world, someone goes blind every five seconds. It is estimated that at least 7 million people go blind every year. 82% of people living with blindness are aged 50 and above. 90% of blind people in the developing world can not work. 50% report a reduced social status and decision-making authority. About 90% of the world's visually impaired live in low-income settings.

Manovue is the World's First Intelligent Personal Assisting Device for the Blind and Visually Impaired that helps them read any printed text, where the user scans the text progressively in a local view and hears the recognized words synthesized to audible speech using Computer Vision and Text-to-Speech Conversion; move outside well-known environments using Obstacle-detection and haptic feedbacks; and is built with a coordinated windows phone application which is accessed using voice commands.It measures the distance of objects and provides feedback via vibrations to the user. The frequency of vibrations is proportional to the distance from the detected object, allowing the user to accurately discern an obstacle’s proximity.