Technology is improving day by day to help with the technological developments that remove our barriers.. Although it is not in sight, technology adds something to itself day by day in every subject and shows what it can do in this regard.. If we take into account the data of the World Health Organization, there are 1 billion disabled people today.. This number corresponds to 15% of the world’s population..

Confronted with many obstacles during the day, many people do not know what to do in the face of these obstacles.. Sometimes they stay away from life and spend their lives in their own comfort zone.. In addition to the unlimited possibilities that technology adds to us in every subject, it can make us do our best to attract these individuals to the flow of life rather than keeping them out of the flow of life.. In this article titled technological developments that remove our barriers, we present to you how technology can include these individuals in this flow of life.

Glucowear

It is very important for diabetics to keep blood sugar balanced, and to maintain this balance, to understand it. They need to constantly measure their blood sugar throughout the day.. This measurement process, which became a torture with needle blows to the fingertips during this process, has become much easier thanks to Glucowear, and it allows us to perform this process in real time and painlessly at any time of the day and night.

Scewo

Stairs and sidewalks without suitable slopes are a nightmare for people with disabilities who have to use a wheelchair.. For this reason, many people cannot go out alone despite having a wheelchair.. Scewo is a new generation wheelchair that manages to eliminate this problem.. It is the most recognizable tool among the technological developments that remove our barriers.. Thanks to the tank pallet-like movable part on the underside of the basic carrier wheels, it allows people to climb stairs easily even alone.. In addition, thanks to the small wheels on the back of the pallets, chair drivers can easily overcome the pavement problems that do not have suitable slopes.

Wheelmap/Wheelmate

Another important problem of disabled individuals who have to use wheelchairs is that the places they go are not in compliance with the conditions or they do not know the eligibility. Wheelmap applet seems to have eliminated this problem with useful programming.. Wheelmap marks on a map whether the heavily used spaces are suitable for disabled use and transfers them to people with disabilities.. In this way, these wheelchair users can easily learn whether the places they are curious about are suitable for them and make their choice of place in the right direction.

WeWALK

Designed for visually impaired individuals to move more easily in life. WeWALK has three key features. These are obstacle detection, connecting to the phone and being able to integrate with different applications.. Thanks to its obstacle detection feature, visually impaired users can detect obstacles at chest and head level and warn their users.. Thus, visually impaired WeWALK users can move without being dangerous and go wherever they want.. By connecting to the WeWALK mobile application with the Bluetooth feature, the user can navigate through his walking stick without touching his phone.. Thanks to the public transportation integration, it can learn all the stops around its location and the times of the buses that will pass through these stops.. It can also give commands to the voice assistant called Alexa.

Dot

This watch, which is the first smart watch to use Braille alphabet, the alphabet of visually impaired individuals, allows visually impaired individuals to access messages, send tweets, use social media. and provides many possibilities such as sending e-mails.. This invention, which is very important for visually impaired individuals who cannot come across with Braille alphabet frequently today, seems to affect the lives of millions of visually impaired people in a good way with its easy method.

Tap See

Tap See application for seeing It is a program based on the logic that disabled people can recognize the objects around them.. By clicking on the phone screen twice and then taking a photo of the object that the user wants to recognize, the user identifies the object audibly.

EyeSense

EyeSense, which is similar to the Tap See application, is an application developed by Türk Telekom for the visually impaired.. They can easily learn the color of the object or clothing they want to learn the color of with the help of the voice assistant.. After activating the application with the voice assistant, the phone’s camera can learn the color of every object they turn, and thanks to the object recognition feature of the application, visually impaired individuals can easily distinguish objects. Thanks to the camera on it, it transfers everything it sees around to its user.. It is possible to make the lives of visually impaired individuals much easier with its many features such as text reading, object detection, motion and location support, scene and photo reading, and person and face recognition.

Horus is the size of an average smartphone. it is a headphone attached to the box. Horus does not fail to help its user even in very noisy environments, by using bone conduction instead of sending the sound directly to the ear canal when identifying objects.. It also offers the possibility to switch between features with the buttons of different shapes on the main box, and the automatic activation feature in case of emergency by understanding the user’s needs. It is a miracle produced for people with diseases that cause movement disorders and other movement disorders, which can be fixed and ensures that the food inside does not spill, no matter how much the hand moves.. In this way, it will make patients feel better psychologically as it does not disappoint the patients.

Sound Shirt

Sound shirt is a technological marvel that has been brought to life with the idea that everyone, including the hearing impaired, has the right to listen to music.. It can detect and translate 8 kinds of instrument sounds with the software connected to the device.. The received data is sent to the clothing via a wireless system, and the music intensity is detected and converted into vibration via 16 micro actuators on the clothing.. Thus, even though the hearing impaired cannot hear the music, they can feel the music thanks to this clothing.

Movable Prostheses

Movable prostheses are designed for the disabled who do not have some limbs due to congenital or various accidents.. It is not like the immobile prostheses used in the past, it allows the person to do what he wants without restricting his movements as if it were his own limb.. It is more preferred especially in case of loss or absence of the dominant side.