thank you very much, really, really interesting. another big theme this year has been tech to help disable people. paul carter has toured the show floor with one woman who is created away to help people with low vision see the world differently. this is rebecca. she s visually impaired and navigating herfirst ces. she s the creator of an app to help other low vision people navigate the world better. i have a rare disease called albinism, which basically means that my body doesn t create enough pigment or melanin, which is why my hair, skin and eyes are the colour that they are. in addition to that, it affects the development and the maintenance of proper vision. as a result of that, i have really an uncorrectable impairment where no amount of glasses or lasik or really any current treatments can aid the problems that i have. and what i found growing up
quite liberating just being able to instantly be able to point your phone at something and see something differently. absolutely. for a lot of people, it s the difference between being able to read a menu at, you know, starbucks or mcdonald s when it s up in the back and needing to ask somebody else for help. and, you know, if you re by yourself, sometimes that s totally an independence issue. the app is currently available for iphone and ipad, but rebecca also has plans to make rebokeh a community for visually impaired people. there s about 25 million people in the united states alone with some type of moderate, uncorrectable vision impairment. and we re super excited to be able to also showcase and bring awareness to that population, to give those people a space to come and gather and say, we have our own very unique set of life experiences and needs and challenges and wants, and to give them an opportunity to come together with people more similar to them to talk about those things
and as a student is that there really was no assistive technology that was appropriate for someone like me who had a vision impairment that couldn t be corrected. but i m not blind. i m still actually even able to have a driver s licence. but i still, despite that, have trouble sometimes during normal everyday tasks, like reading the posters here at ces. the app makes it easier for people with low vision to see things around them. it uses customisable smartphone camera filters that users can change to suit their own unique visual impairment. because i have an impairment, it s really easy to fall well, i know what s best for these people. i know what they need or what they want. 0ur rebokeh app spent about a year in beta with about 100 beta users, where our sole goal was to solicit feedback from people with vision impairment, optometrists, ophthalmologists. and over the course of that year we added or adjusted more than ten different features.
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how. all right, no. now i ve gotjust one selected. there we go, right. this is fiddly. what is your expectation with in terms of how long it would take somebody to get together with this? am i doing terribly badly? no, it s a more complex app that we have. so now, i am looking in at a kind of mirror, except what s looking back at me, unless my appearance has changed very dramatically in the last few minutes, is a female face with green skin. and whatever i do with my face, she does. so if i go.ahhh. ..she is doing that! if i squeeze my eyes shut, she does that too. i can wink at her, i can blink at her, she s got a much better instagram pout than i have, that is for sure. laughs welcome back! thank you very much. you re welcome. it s a little more. it s smaller, this room.