Sesame: A Phone Challenging Those Opposed To The Challenged
Sesame phone is a smartphone designed for people with disability. It is the first hands-free smartphone to be developed.
Sesame Enable, the company behind the design, took up the challenge to help people with disability especially those who have limited use of their hands. It is another success story for people who are physically challenged. One of the Co-founders of the smartphone, Giora Livne, a former navy commander from Israel, is a quadriplegic. This goes to tell how people who are challenged are coming up with great initiatives to help solve some of the problems they also encounter in life before extending the solution to others.
The topic of disability and its business opportunity is enormous. There is always a need to be met.
The Sesame Smartphone Is Suitable For People With Disabilities Including:
- Amputations
- Spinal cord injuries
- Cerebral Palsy
- Multiple sclerosis
- Conditions the results to loss of movement in the fingers or hands.
- Neuromuscular disease
- Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS).
- Previous stroke
The Features
- Touch-free Control: has good gesture recognition. It understands minimal head movements. There is no need for a touch.
- Voice control: The integrated voice control feature is all you need to turn off/on the smartphone and answer incoming calls.
- Lightweight design: It is designed lightweight to enhance ease of use.
- Download Apps: the touch-free interface links to apps from Google Play.
The touch-free smartphone can be classed among assistive technologies. It only requires gestures made using the head and voice. The front camera captures the slightest of gestures made by the head to operate the smartphone. It is designed based on the modified model of Google Nexus 5 which runs Android OS with head tracking features. The Sesame smartphone works like any other smartphone. It can be used for voice calls, send messages, browse the internet, play games, watch YouTube videos and a whole lot of other things you can do with a smartphone.
