The officially permitted capacity for those who werent able to find a place or who cant afford a ticket theres always the roof. Travelers have to remain alert a lapse in attention could be fatal. The danger comes not just from above. Even at the moderate speed of thirty kilometers an hour a tree branch can cut like a machete. Living life in partial or total darkness according to the World Health Organization approximately two hundred fifty three Million People globally the vision impaired to protect the blind. Today on tech night some of the latest innovations making it easier to help people the sight problems navigate a complex world if you want to grab a basket theyre just slightly out there for died. And even enjoy art again through a gentle touch i mean for so many people that ive met they really are crucial to us and later as populations age and then patents become more prevalent a new study to determine what technology is needed in the future to ensure that people can live independently at home safe and happy we really need to figure out ways to better help people as they age as they develop various chronic conditions and do it in a way that optimizes or quality of life the scientific into the crystal ball of aging this is techno a show about innovations that can change lives were going to explore the intersection of heart and humanity and were doing it in a unique way this is a show about science by scientists. New york city. An intersection similar to many of around the. City streets often a confusing maze of speeding vehicles to live moving masses of people who assume the tiniest and navigating side routes traffic lights cross walks in construction sites im challenging for most people but the complexity of this intersection increases dramatically for those with limited visibility or for those who are blind. Tech news dot to crystal reports that were getting a major metropolitan city is difficult no matter where you are but the brazilian paired find it especially difficult now new technologies are being developed that can help even the playing field. Technology really really useful at the same time its not Like Technology is just doing everything for me you know its helping need to do things myself twenty eight year old lindsay yes a lino of boston massachusetts visits new york city often blind since birth years of training enable her to navigate these busy streets im using a cane and its essentially a glorified you know stick but it does its job very well and new technology yet doesnt need to replace things but it can certainly in hand what im able to do twenty third street and Seventh Avenue is a new York City Department of transportation pilot intersection for new technology. In two thousand and eleven the city installed the first a. P. S. Pedestrian signal here. Today of the Twelve Thousand four hundred sixty intersections controlled by traffic lights in new york city two hundred nine now have a. P. s and the number increases by seventy five each year. The beeping boxes are helpful especially when you have an intersection thats a little more dicey it tells me that ok the light did just change so i can go i should go now as long as it sounds save these devices while improving the safety aspect of crossing streets are currently in need of an innovative update re orks city discovered that after they had installed these devices that people people were still having difficulty crossing the street because of the increased complexity with the introduction of dedicated bike and bus lanes so they came up with the idea of actually adding a map to the sorry in this intersection a printed tactile diagram is being tested at the excessive book protest in sydney recently some new innovations in printing have made it possible to create very low cost talked while graphic and brutal songs that are durable enough to put outside lindsey demonstrates the tactile math to passer by george this is also blind so if you feel the braille at the very top it says west when he first street so that the. Doing that would be crossing this this line is showing the direction of travel these arrows youre a lanes of traffic so you have us believe you have you know fully waynes of traffic where the cars are going you know from your left right theres a why here. Oh oh you are here yeah right now you know what to expect in the past three days yes ok yeah steve landau says this is the first step in making Traffic Signals more interactive future generations of science he says will actually have a verbal function and itll say car or bus or cross walk so by heading speak to an interactive aspect of this. We could really be universally accessible i think the most exciting potential is technology that takes into account the skill that a person already has and then fills in the gaps and also to do different kinds of things that maybe arent as easy for me to do now. Flex your legs agree its blind since age eight today at thirty three hes a u. S. Paralympic athletic champion who currently holds the long jump world record. While his athletic abilities put him at the top of his sport some complex and even common tasks sighted people take for granted often challenge him we met lex at a supermarket in ocean beach california how difficult is it for you to navigate with someone like you would take take for granted as a mundane task a Grocery Shopping i think is one of those things where a lot of times our stores will have a. Customer service area so i would go. That would require me to have a specific list of items and there are those times where. You want to learn more about the product you want to learn what types of ingredients are in them and maybe you want to make a better selection im going to fleece so you know a lot of toms im very particular about what goes in someones body recently lex sidestep the help desk for something decidedly more high tech today he shopping with ira i like thanks for calling i wrote this is eric. The Grocery Store. And interested in picking up a couple things what are you looking for today you know are interested. Thank you congress for. Already so i got my game in your head around so i can take it. Ok so the cash registers are to the west where the produce is the fuel and. The Produce Market is to the right hand side of lex is not shopping alone hes connected in real time to an assistant who could be hundreds of miles away from him but his feeling exactly where his. Aron kader is the managing agent operations what does it mean to be an ira agent it means that we get to assist the blind with their day to day tasks and give them more independence and freedom so as cited folks kind of take for granted just jumping in the car and running to the Grocery Store to pick up a simple item and getting back home now with the use of they can really incorporate that and just jump on Public Transportation or an hour and run to the Grocery Store with outside assistance its two humans one out there in the world one person sitting in front of a computer connected through technology and acting as an individual to do it back to do an activity. You know experience something beautiful heres how the system works its part glasses with a built in camera is paired with an app on the users phone when they want to systems they press a button and via Cellular Service theyre connected to an agent who is currently using this technology are called explorers and agencies the video in real Time Streaming in from the glasses that they explore is wearing their g. P. S. Location in a full profile on the user back in the supermarket lexus navigating the produce area theres a child with a car hes stocking the bananas he just all of those so if you wanted to step forward here. What car is going to be here on the right and then were directly in front of the right ok so i see. Pepper potatoes and i see what i believe are cucumbers if you want to extend a hand youll feel. Lets see there will be potatoes on the top and then the second row down but it will be cucumbers so youll get your hand in the camera if you dont mind till to your chin to your chest slightly so the video drops out yeah ok perfect youve got a cucumber in your hand to me teaching like how to tuck their chin to their chest which is not you know its a kind of an awkward movement for someone who doesnt have vision is. Look down to the floor and look up to the ceiling so then you really build that report on that teamwork thats so interesting that those movements i would take for granted because thats how i explore my space wouldnt really be necessary yeah its interesting because when you say look down like to them theyre like well i am looking down but if you say stuck your chin to your chest that gives it more that more just that little bit more description really tells them exactly how to look down. Slightly down go down one row. And thats the supreme but your fingers. Thank you so its got a good crew resting. Now. Are you still interested in a tomato. Ok. So typically tomatoes arent refrigerated so if you want to turn do you have full turn around thats all i want to eat ok so you dont see any tomatoes here and on the other side so lets head towards the right hand side. And if your pas here and turn your skin your head. Thats on your left hand side so if you were to move a couple of steps there actually this case here the tomatoes are on your side so now that youre out there on the left side. On this one no pause here. If you want to extend your hand now directly in front of their apples or tomatoes. Over. And if youll just tuck your chin slightly. Is a tomato so its a red. I dont see any. Holes and while Grocery Shopping is just one small task in lexs life he uses this technology more complex situations like travelling through airports or visiting major cities for the first time there are those. Times where you want to have that specific information you want as many details as possible and so you know for example i want a very good like you know i want to go out. Of the streets a very. You know they were able to navigate me around im Walking Around on the strip it was really is an amazing amazing experience because i just felt really empowered and i hadnt done anything like that before we do have you know thousands of people who are using this obvious explosives we want to get pretty much into the hands of you know every blind in the world a grand task since there is the cost to using this technology the subscription radio is from eighty nine dollars some. Three hundred twenty nine dollars now at the higher and the twenty nine dollars its unlimited use of service at the glasses for free data is free they dont pay for the data in this set of funny usage and we also include insurance associated with the glasses. Because they are stevies the purple flowers and three thousand flowers a year and a couple of bright flowers as well as roses im not sure if there. Are. Already so if you want to move to the check out why. Around this flower stand so youll want to forward a few steps to the turn to the left. Well. Its fine to me. Were exploring the news for a new environments new thing that i. Havent seen in the sense. That. Exploration processes its amazing. We have that Technology Available to us this is a boon for point people right now in technology there is so much going on to help people. Its phenomenal its why its way better than i was when i was younger meat lover dennis paul wrote since becoming blind later in life he gave up visiting museums until today a neuroscientist famously proposed that there were nine ways that our brains help us to appreciate visual art but how do you appreciate a painting that you cant see the answer might be here at the San Diego Museum of art theyre taking an innovative approach to making art accessible to the visually impaired dennis is here to experience a masterpiece specially designed for the visually impaired. Museum associate curator Michael Brown describes the original were standing in front of one sanchez cotyledons masterpiece the still life with quince cabbage cucumber and melon it was painted in sixteen o two into wedo in spain and it is a groundbreaking example of still life painting at the very earliest decorated of the of the seventeenth so what makes it so special this painting was a really pioneering depiction of a three dimensional illusion so hes using in two dimensions he is creating an imaginary tactile experience do you think its possible to you. To give that same impression to someone the able to visually see this painting absolutely because i think that that one of the one of the ways that we interact best with with the public and of all different abilities is telling stories and the stories help to bring works of art to wife and although we cant touch this painting itself we can touch the replica and filled with those stories understand it in two thousand and fourteen we had this made so that people who can see this painting can still experience it so tell me how this read because different from the real thing so first of all you can touch it right and when you look at the real thing youre going to want to touch it which is exactly what dennis perowne did for the first time today. This. Patient. Find this tough. Notice of. A low grade. Pager wanted to show that. Perfect. I dont think you feel bad for fracture syndrome but now you rest on the winters. New to paint the rough exterior skin of the bow and wraps around. Some of the roof several sites and one of the slides can be found sitting on the reduced to the right. Front page has been sliced from american troops left there is the rough texture of the rock. Right. Drifting to the left so i think you can well i went past it does the repetition help trick the out so yes crisis and yes it does but they still this was one of the severest variants are you know theres a rough thing here and i dont know what thats represented in your transform i think i think what youre touching is the its rust in this model but in real life it would be very soft and that sort of pulpy cannot mean anything with e. C. Ok thats what im hearing and were making it difficult the second time you explored the painting you were starting to add sort of layers to the experience after youve gone through the entire thing once do you think that the same is true for tactile models of paintings in general would be more experienced as hell thats a good question that could be as a first time ive done anything like this and i was kind of trying to block out the you know the narration so that i was actually experiencing myself it actually did get better thats for sure but how important is it for these efforts to be made for Art Galleries to be creating things like this for people like you i think its crucial i think there are so many people that ive met that would really appreciate this these are just a few of the accessibility technologies currently in use and as our populations age more innovation is needed to meet the demands of people who become impaired as they get older we pick up that part of the story in portland oregon. A major study called card Collaborative Aging Research using technology from the National Institutes of health is currently underway to assess accessibility strategies for Senior Citizens so they can extend their ability to live independently as part of the study over two hundred Senior Citizen households across the United States are wired with activity trackers will start at the home of beverly healing ok beverly so were were in your home and youre wired up here with a lot of sensors tell me what we have well as we come in the door theres a sensor on the door which simply means the doors been open and its assumed that somebody is coming or going eighty two year old Beverly Healey is a volunteer test subject in a study looking at what happens in the home as we age and what excess ability strategies can be created in the future to remain independent for longer her home has over twenty sensors monitoring her every move. Dr jeffrey case of Oregon Health and Science University is the Principal Investigator of the study if you ask people what they want to have happen to them as they get older ninety percent ninety nine percent will say i want to stay in my home or where i want to be as i get older on the other hand of course people say that because they fear going to a nursing home if youre developing alzheimers disease which is actually now the most feared condition in america wow so we really need to figure out ways to better help people as they age as they develop various chronic conditions fill in the ceiling going down the hall youll see a series of motion detectors that say how fast im walking this is my usual gait and if that should show slow appreciably they would notice that and theyd say somethings wrong really its not moving as fast as she usually does and shes lost her energy whats happening we are integrating multiple types of data that comes in twenty four seven. That reflects real day to day function across the the main things that make a difference in peoples lives so what were able to measure or monitor with the technologies are things like mobility sleep cognitive function so in here is my pill box which is monitored by the modem on my computer and when i open it up in the morning or in the evening to take my pills that registers on the computer so youve got pills for every day of the week here yes and its just getting a sense of whether or not you open the yes not necessarily if you took it i guess but no theres no way they could know that but they can know that ive come to the pill box i built it up and i stand taking the pills out and one of them Thomas Reilly is an Information Technology systems architect at Oregon Health and Science University i develop the software and work our servers collects the data from the sensors and brings it back and stores it now can you show me some of the information that youre getting sort of so right here we have display from our database so this is the sensor identifier and this is the timestamp here you can see shes not present in that room so the thirty says not present thirty says not present an answer a here at this time stamp she becomes present in the room was chosen for ten seconds and then comes back and a couple seconds later its present ten seconds so this is just one sensor in medicine changes everything and most change we detect is by self report you go to a Doctors Office and what does the doctor do they ask you a series of questions do you take your medications are you exercising how are you sleeping and we all do our best to try to understand that but its very hard and we know from our own studies that people actually are rather inaccurate in fact in how they are able to report with the data that we get were able to get the actual data and then you can imagine Going Forward that if you were to come. To a Doctors Office imagine that instead of asking you all these questions not only just were known but its the real information is the actual events that are happening and then the appointment would be spent more in providing care and counseling as opposed to questioning where do you see some of the innovations whats on the horizon in terms of accessibility for the elderly and Senior Citizens there will be a natural shift to more comfort in just having technology around and using it Voice Recognition continues to to advance quite rapidly so the interface for how you conduct. Interviews. How you interact with technology in general is very rapidly changing the data theyre collecting is helpful as its grouped with data theyre collecting from other people just like me who are also contributing to the program and that somewhere years from now or months from now the data that theyre collecting and assimilating will create a pattern of aging for people who are twenty years younger than i am and feel happy about it thats it for now im dr mara see you next time on technology. Once welcome and now fear. And dividing a nation. Aljazeera explores germanys long Term Economic strategy of pursuing immigrants from the arab world i feel more gentleman and syrian. I watch money does a richer get those people put up think its been done it one german and american the new germans at this time on aljazeera. 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