Dezeen's top 10 accessible designs of 2019
This year saw a wave of projects aimed at improving life for people with disabilities, and making spaces more inclusive. For our review of 2019, Dezeen has selected 10 of the best, including a mind-controlled exoskeleton and a series of 3D-printed IKEA hacks.
Braille Bricks by Lego
Work meets play in this collection of Lego bricks, which sees the product's trademark circular studs arranged to form Braille letters, digits and mathematical symbols, in order to help children with visual impairments learn to decipher them.
The hope is to reengage a new generation with this physical writing system, which has increasingly fallen out of favour thanks to the proliferation of digital solutions such as audiobooks.
Find out more about Lego's Braille Bricks?
Wheelie by Hoobox Robotics and Intel
This adapter kit can be installed in most electric wheelchairs in just seven minutes, making them controllable via the facial expressions of the person driving. This helps the user to manoeuvre more independently.
The system relies on a 3D depth camera ? that can judge both depth and distance ? to read the expressions, before a sophisticated machine-learning algorithm is used to analyse and convert them into concrete commands.
Find out more about the Wheelie?
Exoskeleton by Clinatec
Clinatec's full-body exoskeleton is wirelessly linked up to the wearer's brain through implants and, for the first time ever, allows quadriplegic patients to move all four of their limbs just by willing the sui...
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