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India’s Answer to Google Glass: The Smartshoe

India's Smart Shoe

While they can’t buy Google Glass in India yet, Indians will be the first in the world to get access to the smartshoe.

Publicado por Liuyang
martes, 16 de septiembre de 2014 a las 12:00

Indian startup Ducere Technologies Pvt. is going to start selling its Bluetooth enabled Lechal shoes for more than $100 a pair in September. The shoes sync up with a smartphone app that uses Google maps and vibrate to tell users when and where to turn to reach their destination.

Just tell your phone where you want to go and then you can leave it in your pocket because the buzzing in your left or right shoe will lead the way.

Ducere was started by two Indian engineers who had studied and worked in the U.S. in 2011 and has grown to 50 employees in the city of Secunderabad in the newly-formed southern Indian state of Telengana.

“The shoes are a natural extension of the human body,” said Krispian Lawrence, 30, co-founder and chief executive officer of the company. “You will leave your house without your watch or wristband, but you will never leave your house without your shoes.”

Mr. Lawrence used his experience as a former U.S. patent prosecutor to get 24 international and Indian patents connected to his company’s vibrating shoes.

Ducere had initially developed the shoes–with the name Lechal which in Hindi means “take me along”– to help the blind who rely on walking canes.

While the cane can help the visually impaired detect obstacles, it cannot tell them which way to face or when to turn. “That’s where we come in and fill the void,” Mr. Lawrence said.

There are around 285 million visually-impaired people in the world, according to the World Health Organization, and most of them are in India.

Fuente: The Wall Street Journal

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