Details:

  • Category: Hardware, Social Impact
  • Affiliation: 1st place winner in the 2013 Kaylie Prize and current resident at the Zahn Center
  • Status: Active
  • vistawearable.com

Vista Wearable, Inc. designs and builds discreet and active whole-body wearable devices that both sense and convey information to the wearer about his/her surroundings using sensors and haptic feedback. With this technology, they have developed assistive navigation devices for the blind and visually impaired. By leveraging widely available consumer technologies, they design devices that are affordable and will enable the blind and visually impaired to improve their quality of life by gaining better mobility. Vista Wearable is also applying the core technologies to markets that require situational awareness in the face of diminished visual/auditory senses, as can happen to first responders, military, and search and rescue personnel.