Warning! There's crazy rapid blinking ad that induces seizures in sensitive people. When i zoomed in and scrolled down i floated from left down corner. Warming for all not only epilepsy photosensitive people. It almost triggered epileptic seizure in me.

This just in: Blind people who have smartphones, earbuds/bone induction headsets, and haptics like Apple Watches can already accomplish what this cane sets out to do and even more! Results of a smart cane getting hit by a passerby, getting stuck in a train door, and falling in a puddle at 11.

Smart canes suck, they just do. They are unwieldy and unbalanced, non portable, breakable, vulnerable to the weather, expensive to replace, the feedback is obnoxious in crowds, and most features are unneeded by the average cane user with good O&M training, or can be obtained more effectively with a discrete wearable device or smartphone.

Smart canes are something that sighted people like, not blind people. Ask almost any smart cane user what they think of it after the first few months and the best you'll get is a neutral response.

Maybe someday a company will make a slim, durable, well balanced, accurate, and reasonably priced smart cane, but by the time that happens, I feel like wearables will already have advanced enough to make it a moot point anyway.

I wish someone would prove me wrong by improving the already existing designs in a significant way, rather than just making the same mistakes everyone else did. I give WeWalk credit for incremental enhancements as a step along the long road towards an actually good smart cane, but as it stands people are being taken advantage of by this particular empty promise, just like they have been for the last decade with all the others before it.

The wee walk app is good, perhaps I’ll test out the cane in the future.

Why are we reinventing the wheel? What is in this that is not already possible

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