World's First Tablet for the Blind to be Showcased at CES 2017
Austrian
startup Blitlab technology will present one of Europe's most disruptive
innovations at CES 2017. The Austrian company produces the worlds first
"iPad for the blind."
(PRWEB
UK) 4 January 2017
Austrian
startup and EIT Digital Challenge winner Blitab
Technology will be one of the biggest European disruptive innovations to be
presented at CES 2017, the global consumer electronics tradeshow taking place
in Las Vegas from 5-8 January.
BLITAB
developed the first tablet device that creates tactile Braille and graphics for
blind and visually impaired people. To produce tactile Braille the tablet uses
smart micro fluids to develop small physical bubbles instead of a screen
display.
Blitab
Technology recently took first first place in the Digital Wellbeing category of
the 2016
EIT Digital Challenge, and aims to improve the social wellbeing and digital
inclusion of people who may have had difficulty accessing the digital world
until now.
"BLITAB
is a great example for how creative design and high-tech innovation can improve
social change and enhance the digital wellbeing of blind people. At CES we're
looking forward to meeting potential customers. We have big plans for our
technology," says Kristina Tsvetanova, founder of BLITAB Technology.
EIT
Digital itself will also be attending the conference and will be showcasing two
of its own initiatives Fit to Perform and Life-Time Awareness alongside one of
EIT Digital's supported startups, Origone, a cyber security scaleup that
recently joined the EIT Digital Accelerator:
- Fit to Perform, an EIT Digital innovation activity has developed a wearable that tackles health risks for professional truck drivers by monitoring drivers' vital signs. By informing both drivers and haulage companies on safe driving limits it aims to increase road safety and improve profit margins for the transportation sector.
- Life-Time Awareness is an EIT Digital innovation activity developed an application embedded in battery-powered devices to estimate their remaining lifetime accurately. It led to the creation of a startup called Wisebatt, founded by EIT Digital Doctor School graduate Wilfried Dron. It addresses OEMs, hardware and software designers, and support services providers.
- Origone's software provides large corporates and SMEs with comprehensive protection against ever-changing email malware threats, such as ‘phishing' and Trojan Horses, that can cause havoc at organizations.
About
EIT Digital
EIT
Digital is a leading European open innovation organisation. Our mission is to
foster digital technology innovation and entrepreneurial talent for economic
growth and quality of life in Europe. We bring together entrepreneurs from a
partnership of over 130 top European corporations, SMEs, start-ups, universities
and research institutes.
EIT
Digital invests in strategic areas to accelerate the market uptake of
research-based digital technologies and to bring entrepreneurial talent and
leadership to Europe. Our innovation and education activities are organised in
and around our co-location centres, where students, researchers, engineers,
business developers and entrepreneurs come together to drive the digitalisation
of society.
EIT
Digital is a Knowledge and Innovation Community of the European Institute of
Innovation and Technology (EIT). Since 2010, EIT Digital is consistently
mobilising talents, ideas, technologies, investments and business across Europe
and beyond to stimulate disruptive digital innovation. The headquarter is in
Brussels with co-location centres in Berlin, Budapest, Eindhoven, London,
Helsinki, Madrid, Paris, Stockholm, Trento, as well as a hub in Silicon Valley.
Regards
Pralhad Jadhav
Senior Manager @ Library
Khaitan & Co
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