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.

Wow. Don't think this would be much use for most people.
600 bucks for a cane?
Iphone with standard maps app in the shirt pocket with a normal cane would be miles ahead of this thing.

No fucking thanks. Haha! I have a few choice words but I will be kind and not say them. Hhahaha!

The fact that you worked with that quack DR. OZ and are seemingly acting like you are the first ones to come up with this idea isn't exactly inspiring either. You could be doing so much more with your talent and money as a company if you either improved on existing designs or came at the problem from a totally different, more effective angle.


I hear the app is good at least, even if it doesn't really do anything that hasn't already been done.

$600? lol

Endorsed by Dr Oz? Yeah, that will instill confidence.

Also, that music? Loud as hell. Loud distracting music over voice, targeted at an audience that relies a lot on their hearing..... great choice!

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