Eastern Cape to China: Smart Tech for the Blind
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Elihle Amahle Stali Stali
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🇿🇦 From Eastern Cape to China: Smart AI Tech Glasses
"Elihle, mfondini, khawundibambe isandla undincede ndiye toilet." (Elihle, my boy, please hold my hand and help me to get to the toilet.)
Growing up in Zwelitsha, I heard these words from my grandmother every morning. As her full-time child navigator, I made an 11-year-old vow to find a solution that would give her and millions of visually impaired South Africans their ultimate dignity and independence back.
Today, that promise is Spectacles4TheBlind SA. Partnering with A Nation of Light, we have engineered AI-powered smart glasses that guide the blind using a built-in assistant speaking directly in English, Afrikaan,isiXhosa, isiZulu, and Sesotho.
The Global Mission
Our local innovation has just achieved elite validation, being shortlisted into the Top 150 global startups to compete and exhibit at the prestigious Leap Startup East competition in Hong Kong, China this July!
To transition our working softwa...
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