(dotLumen) .lumen - Empowering the Blind

lumen
builds glasses that help the blind live a better life
It was founded as a research startup with the mission of empowering the blind. Every day, we build, test and validate solutions that make their life a little better. And with 40 million blind, increasing to over 100 million by 2050, this is a great challenge.

There are 40 million blind people now and increasing to 100 million by 2050. Despite all the technological advances, when it comes to the mobility of the blind, there are only 2 solutions: the guide dog and the walking cane.

The guide dog, unanimously seen as a good solution, has multiple drawbacks - high cost of training, and most blind people can't take care of guide dogs on their own. Due to this, there are only around 20,000 guide dogs for 40 million blind people. 

The .lumen glasses offer a system for the 40 million blind individuals which can’t have an advanced mobility solution. It replicates the main features a guide dog brings, in a scalable product. The .lumen glasses:

• Understand the environment, objects, their position and movement in 3D
• Compute interaction paths to wanted objects or generally, based on context
• Transmit information to the blind using haptic and auditory impulses