An affordable wearable that turns a phone camera into directional buzzes on a belt, steering blind and low-vision users around obstacles — fully on-device, no internet required.
At a hackathon about on-device inference, the smart move was picking a case where running locally is not a constraint but a requirement. Someone navigating without sight cannot rely on a system that stops when the signal drops, so the technical rule and the user's reality agree. Choosing directional buzzes on a belt over speech leaves the ears free, which reads as designed by someone who pictured a real street. Naming affordability as a goal brings reach into the picture.
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